Kitchen appliances and utensils:
- oven;
- microwave;
- detachable baking dish with a diameter of 15 cm;
- mixer;
- culinary brush;
- culinary whisk;
- culinary spatula;
- culinary knife for applying cream;
- sieve for flour;
- bowls with a capacity of 2 liters (3 pieces);
- deep ceramic bowl;
- parchment paper.
Ingredients
Name | amount |
Wheat flour, premium | 65 g |
Granulated sugar | 80 g |
Powdered sugar | 30 g |
Eggs | 2 pcs. |
Cream fat 35% | 340 ml |
Butter | 20 g |
Dark Chocolate, 50-60% | 180 g |
Cocoa Powder | 2.5 tbsp. l |
Sunflower oil | 30 ml |
Baking powder for the dough | 0.5 tsp |
Condensed milk | 1 tbsp. l |
Vanilla extract | 1 tsp |
Common salt | pinch |
Drinking water | 60 ml |
Bananas small | 7 pcs |
Step cooking
Cake baking
- Pour cocoa (2.5 tbsp.) Into a deep bowl, add 60 ml of water. Using a whisk, mix the cocoa until completely dissolved.
- In a bowl, put the yolks of chicken eggs (2 pcs.), Add sugar (50 g), sunflower oil (30 ml) and the resulting mass of cocoa. Beat the ingredients with a mixer for 1-1.5 minutes until smooth.
- Sift the flour (65 g) with the baking powder for the dough (0.5 tsp) into the resulting mass. Mix the mass until smooth with a mixer, turning it on at low speed, the mixing time is about 30 seconds.
- In another bowl, pour the whites of the eggs (2 pcs.), Add a pinch of salt. Keep the squirrels and a bowl in the refrigerator for 10 minutes before whipping.
- Beat the proteins with a mixer at low speed until a lush foam is formed. Gradually increase the speed of the mixer, add granulated sugar (30 g) in portions (2-3 times) to the mass. After adding all the sugar, turn on the maximum speed, and beat the proteins until stable peaks form. Add whipped proteins to the mass with cocoa parts (one-third), mix both masses with a culinary spatula with movements from the bottom up, all the time in the same direction. A well mixed mass should be homogeneous.
- Cover the bottom of the baking dish (diameter 15 cm) with parchment paper.
- Pour the dough into the mold. Gently smooth the surface with a cooking knife for applying cream. Bake the cake in the oven, heated to a temperature of 175 ° C for 20-25 minutes. Check the readiness with a wooden toothpick, after piercing the cake, it should remain dry.
- Allow the finished cake to cool completely. Take it out of shape. Using a knife with a long blade, cut off irregularities on the baking surface. Cut the cake into three layers of equal height, remove parchment paper from the bottom.
Cooking cream
- Heat the cream (40 ml) to a temperature of approximately 60-65 ° C. Pour crushed dark chocolate (80 g) into a deep bowl. Add hot cream. Wait 1-2 minutes. Stir the chocolate mixture until smooth. Add vanilla extract (1 tsp) to the chocolate mass, mix. Allow the mixture to cool completely.
- Pour fat cream (250 ml) into a deep bowl, add icing sugar (30 g). Whip the cream with a powder mixer at low speed, gradually increasing it to the maximum. Cool the cream before whipping. Cream with a fat content of 33-35% is whipped to hard peaks for about 4-5 minutes, with a fat content of 38% - about 1-2 minutes.Add the cooled chocolate mass to the whipped cream in parts (approximately 3 times). Stir until smooth.
Banana preparation
Peel the bananas (7 small). Cut each banana lengthwise into two equal halves.
Cake assembly
- Transfer the cream to a pastry bag.
- Apply cream from a pastry bag to the first cake (approximately one sixth of the cream), evenly distribute the cream throughout the cake using a pastry knife. Put half the bananas on the cream (divide the bananas into 2 parts), slightly departing from the edge of the cakes.
- Cover the bananas with a layer of cream, evenly distributing it. Cover with a second cake. Repeat the procedure as with the first cake - put a layer of cream, bananas (second part) and another layer of cream. Coat the cake with the third cake layer on top and from the sides with a thin layer of cream.
- Refrigerate for 1 hour to set. After an hour, cover the cake with a thicker layer of cream and refrigerate for another 3-4 hours.
Cake decoration
- Put crushed dark chocolate (100 g) in a deep ceramic cup, add butter (20 g), cream (50 ml), condensed milk (1 tbsp.) To it.
- Melt the mass in the microwave. Every 30 seconds, remove the mass and mix. Heat and mix the mixture until smooth. Remove the cake from the refrigerator, pour it with ganache, evenly distributing it over the entire surface of the cake.
- Let the ganache cool to room temperature and place the cake in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours to completely harden.
Video recipe
You can see the detailed preparation of a delicious banana-chocolate cake in the video below. Repeating all the actions of a skilled housewife, you will bake the same cake without complications:
We hope that the step-by-step description and video material will help you master the preparation of delicious pastries. Pamper your family by preparing a fragrant and delicate cake for the weekend or for the holiday table.