Cynthia's Chocolate Banana Cake

This Cynthia's Chocolate Banana Cake is one of my personal favourites and it's almost been fail-proof for me every time I make it. It's similar to Secret Recipe's version of the Chocolate Banana Cake just that I prefer to use dark chocolate in my version. I made 2 9-inch and 1 4.5-inch cake on Friday for various occasions over the weekend and I took 6 hours, which is rather speedy judging from the fact that my first attempt took me 4 hours! (: 

I'm just really glad that it was a big hit for many! (: That's one of the joy in baking for people I love. 

This recipe is IMAGE INTENSIVE! (:

Chocolate Banana Cake (Take Two)

This is the miniature version of the Chocolate Banana Cake!

This is my second attempt at the cake and it's just as good! (:

This cake took less time as I guess that it helped I was kinda familiar with the steps!

I took a total of 2.5 hours for the cake as compared to 4 hours in the first attempt!

The cake cost me about $25 this time round as I had some of the ingredients.

Chocolate Banana Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Chocolate Chiffon Cake (A)

15g cocoa powder, mixed with 60ml water

2 egg yolks

40g caster sugar

65g self-raising flour

1/4 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

30ml corn oil

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

(B)

2 egg whites

30g caster sugar

1/8 tsp or a pinch of cream of tatar 

Cake Filling

1/8 tsp of a pinch of cream of tatar

115g dark chocolate

43g unsalted butter (I always use salted butter though)

2 small eggs, seperated

125ml whipping cream

1 1/2 tbsp caster sugar

2 bananas, sliced

Chocolate Frosting

70 UHT whipping cream

175g good quality dark chocolate

1/2 tbsp butter

Chocolate Banana Cake

This chocolate banana cake project was done in May 2011.

Guess I was just being experimental and since I really love choco banana cakes, I tried this.

Recipe credits: Suzette Cooks and Simple Makan aka Sunesh

This cake's ingredients will cost somewhere between $40-50 on first try if you do not have most of the ingredients. If you have an equipped kitchen, this will probably cost $25-$30. This takes about 4 hours to piece together cos' it's a multiple stepped layer cake.

Chocolate Banana Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Chocolate Chiffon Cake (A)

30g cocoa powder, mixed with 120ml water

4 egg yolks

75g caster sugar

130g self-raising flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

60ml corn oil

1 tsp vanilla essence

(B)

4 egg whites

60g caster sugar

1/4 tsp cream of tatar

Cake Filling

1/4 tsp cream of tatar

225g dark chocolate

85g unsalted butter (I always use salted butter though)

3 eggs, seperated

250ml whipping cream

3 tbsp caster sugar

4 bananas, sliced

Chocolate Frosting

140 UHT whipping cream

350g good quality dark chocolate

1 tbsp butter