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Chocolate banana cake

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Recipe by Keegan Gerhard

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp instant coffee
  • 65ml water
  • 280g plain flour
  • 130g cocoa powder
  • 1 1/2 tbsps bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 1/2 tbsps baking powder
  • 330g butter, room temperature
  • 210g shortening, room temperature
  • 1kg sugar
  • 690g sour cream
  • 1 1/2 tbsps vanilla essence
  • 1 1/2 tbsps salt
  • 360g whole eggs
  • 780g banana puree

Use imperial measurements

Method

How to make Chocolate banana cake

1) Preheat oven to 180C/Gas 4.

2) Mix instant coffee with water set aside for later. Sift plain flour, cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder together, taking care that all the components are well combined and evenly distributed.

3) In the bowl of a stand mixer, mix the butter and shortening with paddle attachment on second speed until combined. Add caster sugar, sour cream, vanilla essence, coffee mixture and salt, starting on first speed and gradually moving to second speed until light and fluffy (approximately 8 minutes).

4) At one-and-a-half speed, add the whole eggs, in small amounts, until smooth and fully incorporated. Add dry ingredients and banana puree in staggering steps to the mixer and Technique: Blend Mixing two or more ingredients with another so that they combine together as one mixture. You can also use the main blade of a food processor to blend. I know this Teach me, please blend until well combined.

5) Pour into greased sheet pans or four (8-by26cm round) cake pans and bake for 30-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.

This recipe was provided by professional chefs and has been scaled down from a bulk recipe provided by a restaurant. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe, in the proportions indicated, and therefore we cannot make any representation as to the results.