Banana chocolate cake with Peanut butter cream. A dense however comfortable banana cake with milk chocolate chunks, layered with a wealthy and easy peanut butter cream, made the proper celebratory cake for my husband’s birthday.
As yearly, I requested my husband if he would favor a store-bought cake for his birthday, or if he needed me to bake him one. The reply was “I might love so that you can make my birthday cake”. Though birthday desserts, aka layer desserts, will not be my forte, in the previous few years, I’ve really baked for him a fresh fruit tart with lemon custard, a chocolate ganache cake with yogurt cream and berries, a double chocolate Italian cream cake, and a classic Italian sponge cake with layers of custard and chocolate.
Banana chocolate cake
What do you do when your husband purchased a couple of too many bananas which are shortly getting noticed? At first, I needed to make my common spelt flour banana bread, however since his birthday was approaching, I believed I may use them to make him a birthday cake. I requested him if he appreciated the concept of a banana cake with chunks of milk chocolate (leftover from the current Easter), and he wholeheartedly agreed.
Let’s make the banana chocolate cake
- Preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C. Butter and flour two 8-inch spherical cake pans. I additionally positioned a spherical parchment paper on the backside of every pan.
- In a medium bowl, combine collectively the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar on medium-high velocity till mild and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add within the vanilla after which the eggs, one by one. On low velocity beat in half the dry elements then the yogurt or bitter cream and mashed bananas. Beat within the remaining dry elements. Stir within the chocolate chips or chunks.
- Divide the batter among the many ready pans.
- Bake for about 35 minutes, or till the desserts are golden brown and draw back from the perimeters. I additionally test the within with a cake tester. Cool within the pans for about 10 minutes, then unmold onto cooling racks to chill utterly.
Peanut butter cream
This pleasant peanut butter cream comes from a phenomenal cookbook I obtained final Christmas from my husband: “Baking Knowledge” by Anna Olson. It’s a mixture of easy peanut butter, cream cheese, icing sugar, vanilla extract and whipped cream. Very straightforward to make, you are going to like it as a lot as we did. That is the way it’s completed:
- Whip the cream to comfortable peaks.
- Beat the peanut butter and cream cheese till easy.
- Beat within the icing sugar and vanilla, then fold in gently the whipped cream till evenly included.
- Refrigerate till able to assemble.
Easy methods to assemble the Banana chocolate cake with peanut butter cream
- Step 1: Place the primary cake layer on a cake stand. Unfold rather less than half of the peanut butter cream evenly on prime.
- Step 2: Place the second cake layer on prime.
- Step 3: Unfold the remainder of the peanut butter cream on prime, leaving some that you will want for the ornament.
- Step 4: Transferring a number of the peanut butter cream from the highest, unfold it across the sides of the cake till easy, then pull off a number of the cream from the edges to disclose the cake layers (bare fashion). Then, refrigerate the cake for half-hour.
How I embellished the highest
I stored it quite simple and simply added swirls of the remaining peanut butter cream across the prime edge, positioned a blueberry in between every rosette and eventually grated some milk chocolate within the center. I do know I had the proper cake topper so as to add the wow issue.
Birthday cake for my love
Ultimately, a banana bread/cake won’t be your typical birthday cake, however we will guarantee you that it’s completely delicious. The cake is a bit dense however comfortable, with numerous banana taste, correctly, however it is usually chocolatey and never overly candy. The peanut butter cream is the proper praise to the banana chocolate flavors, and it’s so easy and scrumptious that you will see it nice on different sweets, too. We had some leftover and I topped a few of my carrot muffins with it. Superb!
Pleased birthday, Loreto, amore mio! I do know you loved the cake very a lot. Nicely, all of us did.
Pleased baking!
Banana chocolate cake with Peanut butter cream
Whole Time: 2 hours 35 minutes
Yield: one 2-layer, 8-inch/20cm cake 1x
Description
Banana chocolate cake with Peanut butter cream. A dense however comfortable banana cake with milk chocolate chunks, layered with a wealthy and easy peanut butter cream, made the proper celebratory cake for my husband’s birthday.
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Banana chocolate cake:
Peanut butter cream
Directions
Banana chocolate cake
- Preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C. Butter and flour two 8-inch spherical cake pans. I additionally positioned a spherical parchment paper on the backside of every pan.
- In a medium bowl, add the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Whisk to mix.
- Within the bowl of a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, beat the butter and sugar on medium-high velocity till mild and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Add within the vanilla after which the eggs, one by one. Change the attachment to the paddle.
- On low velocity beat in half the dry elements, then the yogurt or bitter cream, after which the mashed bananas.
- Beat within the remaining dry elements. Lastly, stir within the chocolate chips or chunks.
- Divide the batter among the many ready pans. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or till the desserts are golden brown and draw back from the perimeters.
- Cool within the pans for about 10 minutes earlier than flipping onto cooling racks to chill utterly. Refrigerate till prepared so as to add the frosting.
Peanut butter cream
- Whip the cream to comfortable peaks.
- Beat the peanut butter and cream cheese till easy.
- Beat within the icing sugar and vanilla, then fold in gently the whipped cream till evenly included.
- Refrigerate till able to assemble.
Assemble
- Place the primary cake layer on a cake stand. Unfold half of the peanut butter cream evenly on prime.
- Place the second cake layer on prime.
- Unfold the remainder of the peanut butter cream on prime, minus some that you will want for the ornament.
- Transferring a number of the peanut butter cream from the highest, unfold it across the sides of the cake till easy, then pull off a number of the cream from the edges to disclose the cake layers (bare fashion). Then, refrigerate the cake for half-hour.
- Spoon the remaining peanut butter cream right into a small piping bag with a star tip. Pipe swirls of the butter cream across the edge, in a random sample, or to to cowl the entire prime.
- Place a blueberry in between the swirls of frosting and grate milk chocolate within the center if you want so.
- Refrigerate the assembled cake for a few hours earlier than serving.
Notes
The cake will preserve in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 4 days. It can even get extra moist.
You should use bitter cream or yogurt. I used what I had, blueberry yogurt, that is why I additionally added recent blueberries on prime.
I had some leftover peanut butter cream, I used it to prime some carrot muffins.
- Prep Time: 2 hours
- Prepare dinner Time: 35 minutes
- Class: Dessert, desserts
- Technique: Baking
I really like baking and kneading dough as a result of it takes me to a cheerful place in my soul.
