Eggless Banana- Chocolate Bread/ Cake

I don’t like bananas. What a bad start of a blog, rite? Yah but the fact is I do not like bananas. But have to incorporate in the diet since it has a lot of health benefits. Also lot of people asked me to bake banana bread so tried it for the first time and guess what, I nailed it. Yah I nailed it and it was delicious. We all eat eggs but somehow I have ended up baking egg-less cakes in the recent past with great results. So here is one more egg-less cake.

My toddler loves banana as well as chocolates (I mean who doesn't like chocolates?) however I was told that if he eats bananas in this cold weather, he might fall sick. He has tendency of cold and cough so had to come up with something different yet yummy snack. So here we go!!! Let’s bake nice egg-less banana bread aka banana cake.

Before we start just want to share few tips which will help us to bake a nice moist bread. Do not change the measurements of the given recipe. We need over ripe bananas. You would need to keep the bananas for 3-4 days for this bread. If at all you do not have over ripe bananas then either microwave them for 2-3 minutes or keep it in oven for 3 to 4 minutes till the banana skin is black in color (this is the indication of overly ripe bananas). 

Ingredients:

1. Over ripe bananas: 3 (medium size) 
2. All Purpose flour: 1 ½ Cup 
3. Unsweetened chocolate chips: ½ Cup
4. Melted unsalted butter: 6 Tbsp. 
5. Milk: 7 Tbsp. 
6. Vanilla Extract: 1 Tsp. 
7. Baking Soda: 1 Tsp. 
8. Sugar: 6 Tbsp. 
9. Salt: A big pinch
10. Walnuts or assorted nut: ¼ Cup (optional)

Method:

1. Take a large bowl and mash the bananas with the help of a steel fork. They should be very mushy and well mashed before we start adding other ingredients to it.

   

   I know doesn't look appealing :)

2. Now in another bowl sift all purpose flour, baking soda and salt together. 
   
3. Mix milk, butter, vanilla extract and sugar in the banana bowl. Stir it well with a light hand either by whisk or by a baking spatula. Do not mix it vigorously. The bread will be crumbly and will not be moist. 
   
4. Now mix the dry ingredients to the banana mixture and stir it gently. This mixture should be of dropping consistency. It shouldn't be very thin or thick. If you take exact measurements from the list you will get the desired consistency. However, for any reason the batter is too thick, you may want to add milk literally drop by drop to adjust the consistency.  
   
5. Add half the quantity of chocolate chips to the above mixture and mix it gently one last time. At this time you may add chopped walnuts or assorted nuts to the batter. 
6. Preheat the oven on 350F/ 180C.
7. Take 9x5 inch loaf pan and grease it well with butter and little flour.
8. Pour the banana mixture in it. Tap the pan on your counter top. This step will make sure that there are no air bubbles in the dough which will help to make a nice moist cake.
9. Spread the remaining chocolate chips on the entire bread evenly. 
   
10. Bake the bread for 55-60 minutes.
11. Check it with a tooth pick insert after 45^th minute and once after 50^th minute. Adjust the bake timing according to it. Each oven is different so you may need more or less time according to your oven. My bread was ready in 55 minutes.
12. When the toothpick comes out clean, your banana bread is ready.
13. Using the oven mitts take the loaf pan out of the oven and keep it on a cooling rack for about 8-10min.
    
14. After 10min take the bread out of from the pan and let it cool again on the cooling rack.
15. Cut the bread in ½ an inch slices. 
    
16. Serve it with hot tea, coffee or simply with nice cold vanilla ice cream. You may want to pour warm chocolate syrup before serving it. And obviously you can just dig in just like that without anything since it tastes really yummy just on its own.

Please try this super easy recipe of banana bread for your next party and surprise your guests with it. If you like this recipe, give a thumps up and please share it with others. Happy Cooking!!!! 

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Tutti-Frutti Cake

Tutti-Frutti Cake

“Frosty the snow man….” my kid came singing this beautiful Christmas song from school. And the nostalgia began. What do we used to do when we were kids at the Christmas time??? Used to eat cakes, cookies and go to the “camp” area in Pune to see the beautiful decorations and meet dear Santa clause. So now what do I want to bake this year which is different to my son’s American culture but still near to my childhood? Here comes the “Britania Tutti-Frutti cake”. I found a vegan recipe online and saved the recipe for later, made some little changes and baked this yummilicious cake. Thanks to Jaintadaka for this vegan recipe.

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour: 1 ½ cup plus 1 Tbsp for tutti-frutti

Greek yogurt or Plain white yogurt: 1 Cup

Baking powder: 1 Tsp

Baking Soda: ½ Tsp

Olive oil or vegetable oil: 4 Tbsp

Vanilla extract: 1 Tsp

Powdered Sugar: ¾ Cup

Tutti Frutti: ½ Cup plus 3-4 Tbsp for the top of the cake

Cashewnuts: 8-10 cut in small pieces (Optional)

Salt: A pinch

Procedure:

Take a large bowl and sieve flour, salt, baking powder, sugar and baking Soda in it. Now add a 1 tbsp. of all purpose flour to tutti frutti and mix it so that it doesn't sink or stick to the bottom of the pan. Take another bowl and start whisking the Greek yogurt in it. Do not apply pressure while whisking otherwise the cake will not be fluffy. I didn't use any hand mixie to beat the yogurt, mixed it with normal kitchen whisk. The original recipe asked for the plain yogurt but I always prefer Greek yogurt over the plain yogurt for the obvious health reasons also the recipes become much creamier and moist when you use Greek yogurt. At this time add vanilla extract and olive oil to the flour. Add the yogurt slowly to the dry ingredients and keep whisking lightly (you may need to add a Tbsp. of water to the yogurt while whisking it since Greek yogurt is very thick in consistency). Grease the loaf pan with oil or butter flavored oil spray which gives a nice golden-brown color to this cake. I also line it with parchment paper to avoid the mess later. Pour the batter into it. If the batter isn't of the pouring consistency, do not panic, just put all the batter in the pan and tap the pan a little on your counter top this will even out the cake and also the air will be out of the batter to leave a lovely spongy cake once it’s baked. Preheat the oven at 350 F and bake it for 35 to 40 minutes. Mine took 40min however it depends on oven to oven so just check the cake after 37^th minute and keep it more or less accordingly. Check with wooden skewer or with a toothpick in the middle of cake, if it comes out clean, your cake is ready.  

when you cut it without cooling, it breaks

If you have lined the pan with parchment paper just take it out pulling it out from the sides along with the parchment paper. However if you haven’t lined it with the paper just wait for 5-7min and then take it out on a cooling rack. Don’t cut it immediately otherwise it will break. Cool it for about 7-8min and then with a sharp knife start cutting the cake in ½ an inch thick rectangles. If you wish you may drizzle some strawberry/ chocolate syrup on the cake as decoration.

It’s one of the best tea time snacks. Enjoy and relive your childhood. Happy Cooking!!!! 

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