That I made for my angel who turned 6 today..
A piece, anyone? 
For the recipe, head straight to Sin A Mon whose delicious creation is what drove me to try a hand at it.
Thanks a bunch, Monika! It was indeed a joy to bake this cake for Namnam, who was literally left gaping at all those colours magically woven with each other, when she cut it . Needless to say, it was much relished and appreciated by her and all of us
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
This has been in my must-bake list for a long long time…ever since I happened to taste it first at one of the Cinnabon joints here some 5-6 years back. I had fallen in love with not just the taste but also the refreshing aroma of cinnamon. Till then all I associated cinnamon with was chicken curries or biriyani. Never realized it could be a baking ingredient too. And what a delectable ingredient at that!
Anyway, blame it partly on my laziness and partly my fear of goofing it up, I never got around to trying it out all this while. Until today that is. So here we go. Cinnamon rolls for you
Edited to add: In case anyone wants to know how I made it, I picked the recipe from Videojug. Here’s a link to the video with a step-by-step method which I personally found very easy to follow.
This title was actually meant for a post I had planned for yesterday, but since I was too lazy to bake a pineapple upside down cake, my plan to use it as an antidote to shoo the dreadful writer’s block was put on hold! Thankfully I had a far more gratifying experience to note down that worked well in breaking the block instead.
Having said that, I still am too lazy to change the title and think of another one, so I’m simply letting it be
Anyway talking of pineapple upside down cake, it was something I had been meaning to bake for quite sometime for the simple reason that it always looked gorgeously tempting on various food-blogs as well as on my baker-friends’ FB and other web-pages. But I-the lazy bug- neither got around to looking for its recipes on the net nor did I ask my friends for it thinking it would require of me to scrounge around the city for those hard-to-get, exotic ingredients and slog with them for hours! Somehow I always had this notion that the recipe would be a tough one to attempt. And to top it up, the literal mention of ‘pineapple upside down’ and the subsequent possibility of having the cake or the pineapple slices come sploching down on the floor while turning them always gave the clumsy-me shivers!
But last week while looking up some possible recipes for a simple pineapple cake that I could try for a friend’s daughter’s b’day I stumbled upon this recipe for a pineapple upside down cake also, which to my utter surprise was a very easy one. So I decided to give it a try this weekend, today to be more precise . And I am glad I tried this one because my house was filled with a divine smell of baking all around, all through the day! Here is a peek to the cake, feel free to dive in!
Edited to add the recipe! Or rather make that two recipes
Betty Crocker had this easy recipe based on which I brought home all the ingredients. And then I stumbled upon another one by Betty from Betty’s Kitchen, on YouTube which looked just as easy and doable. Although both the recipes were more or less same, baking while watching the video was far easier to follow than baking while reading, if you know what I mean .
So heres the embedded video of Betty’s Tropical Joy Pineapple Upside down cake. Do let me know how it fared for you. And do share a picture of your cake if and when you bake it and leave a link to your post so I can come by to drool at it royally . Have a Happy baking weekend!
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