Chocolate-"Topocho" Banana Cake

Hi, foodies in the Hive!

I hope you're doing great. I've been meaning to make this cake since most of the "topocho" bananas left are ripe. I finally got to make it yesterday and now I can share it with my fellow foodies.

Thank you so much, @foodiesunite for keeping this space open, our dear @sirenahippie for hosting it, and our witness @sagarkothari88 and @ecency for sponsoring it 😁 This time the challenge was for chocolate cake 😋

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Ever since I realized I was mildly allergic to gluten like twenty years ago, I've tried to cut down on wheat flour--and many other products--. This is the main reason why I started using bananas and plantain in cakes and breads.

Chocolate and bananas make an extraordinary duo when it comes to cakes. In fact, I might've used no flour at all for this cake, but I had no unripe bananas left which are the ones that make the dough turn more caky than chewy, and I needed this cake to be good to go with coffee.

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...to share with my friends at a Podcast workshop I'm taking. My dear friend @bertrayo said it was good. I want to believe he was being more sincere than kind 😂 (BTW, in the end, we had no coffee...)

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This cake has a more compact texture than a regular chocolate cake. Also topocho bananas add some acidity which I enhanced with a little lemon juice; the latter also makes the cake soften. Now, I'll tell you what I used this time.

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Ingredients

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For the chocolate cake:

  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 kg ripe topochos
  • 250 gr self-rising wheat flour
  • 100 gr melted margarine
  • 1/2 cup eggs
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 4 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

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For the chocolate topping:

I used an all-purpose chocolate bar, but if you want to give the topping more shine, just add a couple of tablespoons of coconut oil.

My idea regarding this topping was not to make it too thick so I could use it to coat the individual cake portions; that's why I didn't add starch or egg yolks.

I used

  • 100gr chocolate
  • 150 ml condensed milk
  • 1 tablespoon margarine

The most important ingredient here after CHOCOLATE is ripe bananas. I used this variety which is a staple in my hometown: topocho.

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Topochos are in fiber and starch, which will make a lot of good to your digestion. We regularly use them while unripe as a side or in soups, but we can make delicious cakes with ripe topochos and save us some or all the sugar we would normally add.

You can check out my last recipe using unripe topochos here:
Flavorful & Healthy "Topocho" Banana Flatbreads (free of gluten, fat and salt).

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As Easy as ABC

To make this cake, I used my blender. It did most of the work for me.

First of all, I peel the bananas and cut them into pieces just small enough not to miss the blender blades.

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I added the cocoa powder,

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sugar,

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melted margarine,

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eggs,

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lemon juice,

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baking soda, ground cinnamon, and vanilla essence.

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Once all the ingredients, except for the flour, are inside the glass, you can turn the blender on.

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I like to fold the flour because it makes fluffier cakes. So I sifted the flour into a bowl and then poured in the cake mix...

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...and floded it.

I used a simple 18" bundt cake mold which fit perfectly into my little electric oven. I prefer to use this small oven, as the large gas oven emits a lot of heat. The heat here is already oppressive without turning on the gas oven.

I poured all the mixture into the mold well greased with margarine only.

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It is quite a thick mixture...

So I rotated the pan on its axis so that the mixture was evenly distributed.

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The texture of this cake is a little dense but really soft. When we take the cake out of the oven, we can see that the cake overflows the edges of the pan, but in the next ten minutes it progressively drops about 15% and becomes less spongy--the same that happens to brownies--. In spite of this, the texture is still very soft and pleasant. This moist is a plus that we get from using ripe bananas in the cake mix.

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I unmolded the cake while it was still hot. As you can see, there is a crack; this then partially disappeared as the cake set.

What I want you to see here is that the cake comes out very easily leaving the mold practically clean and that, in addition, it is a mixture that has enough air in it.

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The air in the mixture makes the surface porous enough to absorb enough of the chocolate topping. This makes the texture even more pleasant. And it also makes it possible for you to eat the cake with your hands if you let it set for a day; This is very useful if you don't want to dirty plates and cutlery.

Making the topping is the eaisest thing. I mixed all the ingredients in a saucier and let it cook over medium-high heat while constantly stirring with my silicon pastry spoon.

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Then I poured the hot topping over the cake.

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I love to pick up the topping that falls to the plate and dip the cake portions each time I serve them.

Enjoy!

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All text and images are my own. I have taken the pictures with my Redmi 9T cell phone. And if any GIFs here, I've used GIPHY for all them.

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Thank you so much for your visit :)

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I don't get too kind with bad food. It was delicious. Ha, ha, ha, ha. I wanted to get all the chocolate out of the packing but it would've looked pretty bad using my fingers to do that in the middle of the class. 😂

That'd be funny, and I'm sure it must've been classy 4 thousand years ago 😂

I'm taking what is left to my father, but no extra topping for him.

It is already delicious without the topping. That's a good thing.

That'd be funny, and I'm sure it must've been classy 4 thousand years ago 😂

It is still classy in India. 😂

Ha ha ha ha 🙈

I must move there.

Oooooooohhh! Está torta de chocolate con topochos si que se ve realmente delicioso y muy práctica de hacer! El bizcocho te quedó perfecto. Y me encanta porque te quedó súper alto. Quedé enamorada de esta torta!😍🎂

Por cierto, estuve buscando topocho en el mercado y no lo encontré. Usar el cambur normal, cierto?

Gracias, @marlyncabrera por compartir tus geniales recetas!

Saludos!🤗

El topocho tiene mucho almidón, así que da mezclas más suaves que el cambur, pero más compactas. Es lo que he aprendido de integrar ambos a diferentes preparaciones dulces y saladas. Por ejemplo , creo que una torta con guineo se va a romper al salir del molde. Pero el topocho maduro se parece mucho al manzano; creo que podríamos hacer la torta con la misma receta, cambiando los topochos por manzanos.

Igual siempre hay un amigo o un familiar dispuesto a comerse los experimentos culinarios que salen mal 😂

Me cuentas.

Gracias por pasar, @zupasteleria 😁 ❤️

My mouth is watering, it looks so yummy. The chocolate color is so inviting.

Oh, I'd love to have you for coffee today; we have some left for an afternoon snack. Thank you so much for dropping by, @jenthoughts 😁💕

Wow, it looks like a delicious dish! The way you've prepared the banana cake is so beautiful. I'd love to try it as well. Thanks for sharing!
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I've just seen your delicious banana dish. What a coincidence!

Thanks a lot for dropping by, dear @hive.samadi 💕💕

Se ve espectacular.

This looks spectacular. Will you save me a slice please...a very well explained recipe, with the photographs very clear and the gifs provoking yet another slice. Great job.

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Your slice is well kept! Thank you so much for dropping by, dear @chacald.dcymt 😁💕


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This is really yummy and will definitely taste good
Thanks for sharing

For me, banana and banana cakes and breads definitely taste good. They are soft and moist, and save you some if not all of the sugar that is normally added to these types of desserts, which makes the sweet anyway but a little healthier.

Thank you so much for dropping by, @harhess 😁💕

You are welcome dear friend
Nice meeting you @marylncabrera

My Gosh, what a delicious and good looking cake. I love how easy it can be made. With the help of blender too, ny only problem is I don't have oven, will steaming it work? But I feel like cooking it into oven is much better. Gosh I want to try it. Can I have a slice of that please ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

I guess you can use steam and it will take on the texture of a bread budding. Why not use a frying pan? I've done it before when we've been short of gas.

Would you like your slice with coffee or tea? 😌 Thanks a lot for dropping by, @ruffatotmeee 💕

Whoa, so you bring the delicious cake into your work area ❤️
The texture really superb

And your photography, better and better ❤️

I did! I like to share my little experiments with friends 🤭 I'm receiving some instructions on how making fiction podcasts; the instructors are the best and so are my partners.

Thanks a lot for your compliments. They mean a lot to me! Thank you so much for dropping by, sweet @anggreklestari 😁💕

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Esto es la mamá de la recetas para comenzar el día con energía 🤸🏻‍♂️ creeme que si como está delicia

Tendré energía para subir el Ávila unas diez veces cantando feliz

Mucha energía para subir el Ávila un ratico trotando y otro, volando 😂 Luego lo bajas rodando 🤣

Jajaja si inventas , rodando no 🤣 eso sería como Homero Simpson cuando se cae por un barranco 😜

Rodando como un cubo, pues, ja, ja, ja

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chocolate and banana in pastries are already a great flavor combination and the result with this picture looks truly mouth watering 😋 thanks for sharing your recipe for this! 😄
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Chocolate and banana...

I know, right? That combination is a winner. Thanks a lot for your consideration and support, @dbuzz.rewards ❤️

Banana cake?! that looks soooo good!

It was good! Banana cakes rock 😁

Today, only cats to go with our coffee.

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We won't eat the cat.

I love detail of baking process with pictures. Especially the gif.

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I'm glad you appreciate that. I think GIFs can be really didactic when it comes to recipes; they show parts of the process in a few seconds.

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Thank you so much! Thanks for the info as well 😀

No soy alérgica al gluten ni nada parecido pero si me gusta hacer mucho recetas como está, he hecho un pastel parecido pero con cambur, así que me puedo imaginar el sabor de esta torta que has compartido y se me antoja mucho, se ve muy rica y me gustó mucho tu paso a paso, gracias por compartir

Los cambures hacen tortas muy suaves; incluso los he usado como sustituto del huevo en brownies veganos. En Venezuela, tenemos la suerte de que los cambures y los plátanos son muy económicos, y en mi caso particular, pues tengo a mi comadre que los cosecha en su patio y me regala montones de topochos 😁

Gracias por pasar, @aarolita ❤️

Looks delicious. Please kindly save a piece for me, I'm coming for it right away. Thank you for sharing this recipe with us foodies 😋

Nunca imaginé una torta realizada con topocho y además chocolate, eres creativa en la cocina, como consejo es preferible no comer nada de harina de trigo ya que si no se tolera bien el gluten es mejor cambiarlo por avena. Saludos y bendiciones

Oat flakes are a great ally in my kitchen, sure! I use Avelina which are gluten free, btw, which is a relief for my celiac friends as many brands can't guarantee their flakes aren't contaminated with gluten.

Anyway, I've made peace with gluten, as it's even in my shampoo, but I do use it like 80% less than before; I hope I never turn allergic to it because I do love pita 😁🙈

Thanks a lot for dropping by and for your wise words, @liyuxiexie!

I feel in the mood for just this. The photo with the piece cut and the spoon, makes me drool. Yum yum yum yummy yum!!!!

Wishing you the best my friend.

Chocolate works wonders 🤣

We're about to become walking topochos, hehe. Too many this time. I've done everything to use them up.

Thanks a lot for dropping by!!! 💕💕