Every now and then, I get invited to an 'American Supper'. You can tell the people doing the inviting are a bit posher than I am: 'Supper, indeed, very Nigel/Nigella. For those not in the know, an American Supper, is where everyone brings something to eat. I've been to a few now and it always just seems to work. One time there was something of a pork pie mountain, but in general and as if magic a pretty decent and varied buffet seems to miraculously appear each time.
Enough pre-amble. Down to business, I decided to take a Banana cake, my main motivations being:
- Redemption - at the last of these events I was running late and Tesco's was closed due to flooding, so I had to stop at the garage and the best I could do was some on their sell by date Sausage Rolls. Poor show fo' real.
- I had three bananas that were on the turn. Waste not want not and all that.
I've made Banana Cake
before, which is a jolly decent cake. At least I like it. However, I was concerned the discerning palates might find banana on its own a bit bland, so I decided to jazz it up a bit with choccy chips. Just for fun, I decided to try a new recipe (
Here from - allrecipes.co.uk), (which I adapted slightly, of course).
Ingredients:
- 250gs Banana's. Which was 2 1/2 narnis
- 200gs plain flour
- 125gs Caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 120gs unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 4 tablespoons milk
- 80gs milk and plain chocolate chips
- 1/4 teaspoon of salt
Method, oh how I love the easy stuff:
- Mash banana's and mix with everything else
- Line a baking tin with greaseproof, greasing the paper too, just to make sure
- In to the oven @170c for 40-45 minutes OR until a knife comes out clean (my oven seems to cook pretty slow, taking quite a bit longer than allrecipes said)
Drum roll.......
Because this was still warm when I set off, I transported it in a oh so glamorous carrier bag. The smell from it though was lush. It was still had a nice just-baked-warmth by the time we'd got to the puddings.
Word quickly got round that in an amongst the Cadbury Chocolate rolls and the like there was warm home made cake and it was gone so quickly I only just managed to get a piece myself.
Should have put more Choccy chips in. But other than that a definate success.
Lovely Choclette - this may be my first ever recipe with Chocolate in, I can't think of any others! Quick, quick - can you start a competition that allows bananas based baked chocolate products?
