When I was a child I had an aunt who insisted bananas had to be black before eating, and there they were, in the fruit bowl black and squishy - ugghh.
A question - Should bananas be hung above the fruit bowl or put in it ?
Moving on to today's recipe Nigel's Chocolate , muscovado and banana cake.
Couldn't wait to get started this morning - well to taste it actually - as Mr Slater said, " according to the monumental Twitter activity, this cake trended"
Ingredients at the ready I made a start only to realise I had perhaps bought the wrong kind of sugar. The recipe simply said " muscovado sugar " but the supermarket offered dark or light ? I plumped for the dark variety but when creaming the butter and sugar together and not achieving a fluffy pale coffee colour as the recipe stated , I realised I should have got the light version. Undeterred and with my dark strong coffee looking mixture I continued.
Mr Slater did warn to take care in case the mixture curdled when adding the eggs , mine didn't Yippee! However it did when I added the banana!
Finally ready for the oven and 50 mins + cooling time to go before tasting so I did something I haven't done since a child and licked the bowl!!!!!
My cake took another15 mins after the recommended time but was finally cooked.
And the verdict? Very sweet ( more walking required!!!!!) and dense in texture but the combination of chocolate and banana in a cake is sublime. Definitely one to be made again.
My husband said " I love it but can't taste the banana" I worry about him sometimes!!
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