While the recipe is being drafted, anyone wants to stake claim on a piece?
Edited to add the recipe…assuming that you must have tasted the cake, and burped too by now…
Even though I have made Banana Walnut bread before and loved it all the same but it was after visiting a friend recently, where she treated us all to a super-yummy Banana Chocolate Walnut Cake that I realized how much more delicious it could be when chocolate and cinnamon were added in. Hmmmm..the very thought of taking a bite at the cake, chocolate chunks crunching in my mouth, cinnamon flavour tinging in with the banana and walnuts, is so lip-smacking!
Needless to say, a bunch of us were pouncing on the cake as though there’s no tomorrow and nagging my friend to share the recipe. And before we knew she had forwarded this recipe by epicurous to our group-chatting box on our mobiles! Yep she is a sweetheart that way and yep yep we are a crazy bunch to have a group dedicated just for yapping!
So here goes the recipe…
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick unsalted butter, softened, plus 2 tablespoons, melted and cooled
1 cup sugar, divided
2 large eggs
1 1/4 cups mashed very ripe bananas (about 3 medium)
2/3 cup plain whole-milk yogurt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 (3 1/2- to 4-ounce) bar 70%-cacao bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
1 cup walnuts (3 ounces), toasted , cooled, and coarsely chopped
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Method:
1. Preheat oven to 375°F with rack in middle. Butter a 9-inch square cake pan.
2. Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt.
3. Beat together softened butter (1 stick) and 3/4 cup sugar in a medium bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until pale and fluffy, then beat in eggs 1 at a time until blended. Beat in bananas, yogurt, and vanilla (mixture will look curdled).
4. With mixer at low speed, add flour mixture and mix until just incorporated.
5. Toss together chocolate, nuts, cinnamon, melted butter, and remaining 1/4 cup sugar in a small bowl. Spread half of banana batter in cake pan and sprinkle with half of chocolate mixture. Spread remaining batter evenly over filling and sprinkle remaining chocolate mixture on top.
6. Bake until cake is golden and a wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool cake in pan on a rack 30 minutes, then turn out onto rack and cool completely, right side up.
Read More at http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Banana-Chocolate-Walnut-Cake









Poora ka poora me and my monsters will claim
Thank god that greedy peru ram is not yet here
I also want poora I got a monstet appetite myself so make two..
Who’s greedy peru ram??
Tumhari golu molu beta
Btw I got that you are teasing me on the Peru thing…..grrr
LOLa kutty!
Ofcourse I waaaaaaaaaaaaaaant ! Why oh why ! I haven’t baked ever and all of the amazing bakedfood I see on blogs makes me feel like I am not doing something that is a must-do !
Anything banana works for me . Sigh !
better luck next time ok
btw I love your name
Hey AD !
Thanks
“Anything banana works for me” Oh then you must give it a try, kismitoffeebar, its yum!
Gah! I just wrote on Scribby’s blog that she should be banned from putting up such mushy posts…in your case, you should be banned from putting up such droolworthy pics..these look so so yummmmmmmmmmmm….I am meeting you when you come down to India, for sure
Haha! Come come…anything to tempt you enough to plan a trip to Delhi RM!
Stake my claim?? I want to pounce on it rather…
like Tom does in Tom and Jerry when he sees an apple pie!
Hahaha, go ahead…pounce!
I don’t want just a piece. I want the whole of it, okay? Yes, I’m perfectly capable of polishing off the entire cake by myself
Oh lovely! Come over I will bake as many as you want
*sulks*
Pixy puts up pics of aloo paratha
You put up that of a cake!
I hate you guys!
I ditto you smita.. Not saying just in case deeps denies me the cake.. He he he
Aww..dont say that, Smita and Bik! Here you go, take as many pieces as you want they are all yours
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This looks sooo yumm… I know a lot of people have already claimed for it, but can i also get some??
Sure..no need to ask!
Delicious!!
Banana walnut cake/bread , banana choco chip muffins are my fave!!
Drool-worthy really!
I love banana cakes and breads too!
Why do all of you do this to me? Posting pics of things I am incapable of producing is cruel. Hmph.
I will be in Delhi in a few months…drop by and I will bake one for you,pacca!
Is there anything left for me?? I wanna have a bite of this yummy cake too!
Aww come come..I will make a beeeg one for you!
I so want this too! And since I have landed here so late, I will have to go make my own
Any chance Deeps, of getting a cake couriered here
Am so going to bake this – last bakes in this place
D: Aww Smits, hugs re! I can visualize you going on a baking spree in the last few weeks left there
Hey Deeps, I don’t have a 9 inch square pan, do you think I can try it with a 9 inch circle pan? You’ve used a round pan, haven’t you?
Yup yup Smits..I used a 9 inch circle pan
. Do try it out and let me know how it fares for you
Great! Will definitely give this a shot
Never made a banana cake yet but everywhere I read abt one they all swear by the taste….maybe if I had a friend who made one and let me taste it, I’d also be convinced I suppose
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These walnuts….you bought toasted ones or did it by urself????
I toasted them, Nance
. Do give this a try, Nikita & Naina will love it
Drool drool drool
I would love a piece of that cake!!
I haven’t tried banana cake ever, or any cake with cinnamon in it.