Hi, foodies in the Hive!

I hope you all had a nice weekend. Mine went really well; the semester is finally over, and I can take a break from classes and proofreading/correcting/grading papers 😁❤️

Almost every Sunday, my husband and I go to the city market to get food and fish for our kittens.

Although there's almost always something, some "little thing" that goes wrong with our purchases as there are cheating vendors who want to give you less for your money, we continue to go often because, in general, we save good money that we cam use for other necessities.

Today I got some horrible bananas, certainly not the ones I'd picked--they look worse in person, or in banana 🤣; it was one of those "little things" that could go wrong; it was boiling hot and because of this, I wanted to go home quickly before I popped, so I was careless. Anyway, those awful bananas, which are not even the variety I like, turned into a tasty cake by the end of the afternoon. I added some homemade coconut flour, Granny Smith, cocoa, chocolate, and cinnamon 😁

Below I show you how I made it, if you want to take a look.

INGREDIENTS

• 700 gr awful bananas (usually overripe)
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 eggs (M)
• 1 cup coconut flour (I used homemade, wholemeal)
• 1 cup self-rising wheat flour
• 3 tablespoons white vinegar
• 3 tablespoons corn oil
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 200 gr Granny Smith, chopped
• 50 gr Savoy dark chocolate, chopped

• 1 tablespoon sugar + 1 tablespoon cocoa powder for garnish

• enough margarine to grease the baking pyrex

MAKING THE CAKE 😋

I peeled and mashed the bananas with a fork.

Then I added the sugar and ground cinnamon, plus three healthy and fresh eggs I bought today from a friend.

After I had mixed these ingredients, I added the flours.

Now that I'm making this flour with the coconut bagasse left over from making milk, I've found a valuable ally to eat less to no wheat flour. I used half and half for this recipe.

Then it was time to add vinegar and oil. Measures are approximate; I leave this part to my eyes 😃

I mixed well and got ready to add the apple and chocolate. I started by peeling and chopping most of the apples, leaving a portion to slice on the mandoline.

As usual, I rubbed the chopped and sliced apple with freshly squeezed menon juice.

Lemon juice keeps the pieces of apple from turning brown.

PYREX

Always that I can, I use a pyrex to bake my cakes. As I had a good amount of batter, I chose my biggest one (28 x 19 x 6 cm), which fortunately fits in my little electric oven. I greased it well with margarine.

Then I poured 3/4 of the mixture into the greased pyrex.

...and added the apple chunks.

I chopped 50 gr of chocolate and added them. The pieces of apple and chocolate were about the same size, 1 cm approx.

There were three times as many apple chunks as chocolate, I think.

More batter.

All of it.

Finally, it was time to decorate. You probably already know that my decorating skills are limited--really limited--, so I rely on the beauty that the ingredients have in themselves. Fortunately, the hideous bananas had already been transmuted 😁

I arranged the apple slices the best I could on the surface, sprinkled them with sugar, and then added a mixture of sugar and cocoa powder on the borders of each slice. It was right then when my husband came up to me and said, "What are you doing?" And I, before he said, "That lacks color," replied, "I'm doing a decoration in earth tones." I replied like an expert. He went on his way 🙊

After 45 minutes in the electric oven at 300° F, this was the result:

I was really happy with the appearance and also, with the textures and flavor.

Banana cakes are really versatile. We like this cake for dessert as much as for breakfast with a cup of coffee. If you like banana cakes, you probably want to try this one. It was fruity and moist, aromatic, soft. Nice!

I hope you found this post useful 😁 Have a wonderful week ahead! ❤️

Enjoy!

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.

Thank you so much for your visit :)

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