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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Cakes => Topic started by: meganjane on December 05, 2011, 01:50:45 am
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Mrs Woo was a parent at the school where my sister's children attended many years ago. She brought along a delicious banana cake to an event one day and my sister asked for the recipe. Ever since then it's the only banana cake we make.
I've made loads of different versions. Sometimes I add cinnamon and grated orange rind, sometimes mixed spice and sometimes I use buttermilk.
I've also made 1 1/2 times the quantity. My sister has also made a delicious Ambrosia Cake from this recipe.
Mrs Woo's Banana Cake
125g soft butter or butter blend
125g caster sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 tsp bi-carb
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp mixed spice
2 Tbsp milk
1 Tbsp lime juice (lemon will do)
3 large ripe bananas
Mash bananas with milk and add lime juice. Set aside.
Blend butter and sugar on speed 3 for 20 seconds. Add eggs one at a time and mix for another 20 to 30 seconds.
Add in sifted dry ingredients (can 'sift' them together first and remove from bowl) and banana mixture.
Mix for 10 seconds or so until incorporated fully. Use spatula if necessary.
Cook in moderate oven for 40 minutes. I use a ring tin normally and a Kugelhopf tin when I made the larger quantity.
Ice with cream cheese icing with a little added lemon juice and rind
Leave plain and butter slices.
Ice with Lemon Icing
Top with melted butter and cinnamon while still warm and serve straight away - yummo!
Variations
* Substitute cinnamon for mixed spice and add the grated rind of an orange.
* Use buttermilk in place of milk.
* Add choc chips, grated orange rind and chopped dates for Ambrosia Cake
* Make in muffin tins.
Picture below is one normal sized batch in a small Kugelopf tin.
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This sounds lovely MJ. Isn't it funny how we give names like this to recipes. I have Phil's peppermint slice, Jane's stained glass window cake etc.
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I love recipes that have people's names and I love hearing the story behind them!
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This was lovely MJ. I made it this morning as I had a few tired looking bananas which I was about to freeze but I remembered seeing this post. We had friends over and it went down a treat. Lovely and moist and although I love nuts in banana cake, I didn't miss them in this. I have no idea how well it would keep as it all went. I made it in a loaf tin and it cooked beautifully in the stated time. Thanks.
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It doesn't keep very long, only about three days, but I generally find it doesn't last that long anyway! I often freeze half of it if I've only got one man to feed.
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Hi, meganjane,
Would you take 1 1/2 cups flour to mean 200 g or so? :-\
Thanks!
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milnead its about 230g. i think we all fill our cups differently :-))
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yep I would say 230 also
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Yes, I meant to convert it to grams. My cup measurement is 140g, so 1 1/2 is 210g. I don't pack it down.
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Thanks for sharing this one MJ..
Tried it today as I had a few tired bananas.
The mixture did not go as far as I expected so my main cake was a bit small, But they are YUMMMM.
1 small cake and 6 large muffins.
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Rosie I love the muffin shapes. Very impressive.
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Gorgeous shapes! I sometimes make 1 1/2 times the amount for a bigger cake. Works just as well.
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Gorgeous shapes! I sometimes make 1 1/2 times the amount for a bigger cake. Works just as well.
Rosie I love the muffin shapes. Very impressive.
Thanks. I use the silicon muffin moulds. I have a collection of shapes and sizes and love the way they look,
And just need to drizzle with icing or dust with sugar to get a good look.
I will try 1 1/2 next time as DGS likes muffin size cakes. He is not keen on slices.
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DD requested banana cake. While DS having his day nap, made this with DD - she had fun baking this. In the oven now. Thanks, MJ!
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Yum... DD has second and third pieces! She's very proud of her yummy banana cake.
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I made this yesterday with some very dead bananas. It is lovely and will be made many more times. :-*
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This was a really easy recipe and it smells great while cooking. I only had two bananas but it still looks good, yet to taste as its cooling!!!!
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Sounds yum an love the addition of lime..
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So glad everyone is loving this. It's one of our family favourites.
It's also delicious served warm with Butterscotch Sauce (from Sticky Date Pudding) and ice cream and cream. ;D
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:) i will make this next week.
i have lots of frozen bananas.
Robyn
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I made this today and it is delicious thank you meganjane, will be keeping this as my banana cake recipe from now on
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It's my only Banana Cake Recipe too!
I'm still looking for a really good carrot cake - one that's like the Sara Lee one you can buy.
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Yes MJ love the sara lee carrot cake if you find a recipe please let me know :) :) :)
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Kids love the chocolate sara lee cake i do 2
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Yes me too Uni ;)
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I whipped this up late this afternoon, thanks for bumping it Suzanne. I had 3 very, very black bananas which were heading for the compost bin but they have now been turned into this cake. Lovely cake and the icing really tops it off.
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That looks lovely JD, mine didn't get a chance to be iced but still delicious
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Looks yummo, JD! I don't usually ice mine, but often serve buttered.
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I only iced it because I had 1/2 packet of philly cream cheese otherwise it would have been buttered for me too.
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Lovely tasting cake
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(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt266/nachothecat/e5fd4ff98964222d0ddbf106b1b4b4c5.jpg)
Thanks MJ & Mrs Woo :)
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In the oven as I post this, smells divine!
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welcome to the forum RunawayPrincess. pop over to Introduce Yourself on the home page and tell us a bit about yourself
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Great moist and tasty cake.
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I've made this cake twice now - the 1.5x quantity in a kugelhopf tin - and it's been perfect both times.
(I find some banana cake recipes go heavy in the Thermomix; perhaps some recipes can't tolerate being over-mixed.)
Looking forward to trying some of the variations when Mum's next bunch of bananas is ripe :)
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This is one of our favourite banana cakes now too.
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Me too
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Demolished again :)
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt266/nachothecat/1a7fb85ec77a98635f5fa339fd436208.jpg)
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That is the perfect tin for it Maddy.
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Not as pretty as Maddy's, but I made this recipe today as cupcakes and they are delicious :D :D
Thanks for the recipe MJ! :)
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This is DD's fav banana cake!
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It looks lovely in that shape.
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Thank you Cookie, this shape is just perfect for the recipe!
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Had some bananas that needed using so made this today.Very nice cake.Thanks MJ ;D
I used lemon glace icing to decorate it.
(http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad348/Cornish_cream/b868b545de96ab0dbefa5c9c530018d2.jpg)
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CC.. That looks terrific!! How did you do the icing??
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Just one word GF "luck" :D :D :D :D
I used my IKEA (http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20133037/) cake tin for the first time.When the cake was cold I just made up some lemon glace icing and plopped it in the middle.I thought it would drizzle down but it just sat in the centre :D :D :D
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Good heavens!!!! ;D ;D ;D . . here I've been racking my brain trying to think of some method you used to get it to go like this . . ;D ;D
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perfect cc;D;D
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CC - have just been looking at your cake again . . . maybe it's the magic of the shape of the pan!! ;D ;D ;D
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Looks great CC, wonder if you can do it again next time. Maybe the secret is in having the cake cold( plus the shape of it) when you iced it?
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Have just looked them up . . those pans are available in Australia, too . .
http://www.ikea.com/au/en/catalog/products/90191854/
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Lovely cake CC
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Looks great CC, wonder if you can do it again next time. Maybe the secret is in having the cake cold( plus the shape of it) when you iced it?
Probably not Judy,sheer fluke on my part :D :D The shape of the cake tin helped and a cold cake. ;)
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Nice cake CC.
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Looks beautiful CC, I wouldn't want to cut it ;D
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Looks lovely cc :)