Chocolate cake with bananas

8 servings
1 hour

How to make chocolate cake with bananas? Make the biscuit first. How to make a biscuit? Break the eggs into a bowl and stir lightly with a whisk. Add the sugar and stir until the sugar dissolves completely. If the sugar does not dissolve well, put the bowl in a water bath, heat to warm (not hot! states), and, stirring with a whisk, dissolve the sugar.

Then whisk the eggs with the sugar mixer on high speed until light cream mass. The mass will increase by about 3 times.

Sift the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into a bowl. Stir until smooth brown dough is obtained.

Melt the butter and cool it. Add the melted butter to the dough and mix well. For better mixing, I recommend first adding a spoonful of dough to the oil, mix well. Then pour the resulting mass back into the dough and mix well again.

Cover the baking dish with parchment, make a side out of it. Pour the dough into a tin and send to an oven preheated to 180C. Bake the biscuit for 20-25 minutes. I use a shape with a diameter of 16 cm. It is more convenient to cut the parchment bottom with scissors.

Remove the finished biscuit from the oven. First cool it slightly in the tin, then remove from it and leave to cool. Remove the parchment from the completely cooled biscuit.

Cut the biscuit into three pieces.

Make the cream. How to make a cream? Melt the chocolate in a water bath. To do this, pour water into the saute pan, put on the stove and wait until the water boils. Remove the saucepan from the stove and place a bowl of chocolate on top, breaking it finely beforehand. The bowl should be larger than the diameter of the saucepan, the bottom of the bowl should not touch the water. Stir the chocolate until it is completely melted. Cool the chocolate to room temperature.

Whisk the cream with a mixer into a lush mass until soft peaks.

Add the cooled chocolate to the cream and whisk with a mixer until thick, smooth cream.

Cut the bananas into thin circles.

Collect the cake. Take one bark and soak the surface in sugar syrup. It is more convenient to apply syrup with a pastry brush, but I used a spatula.

Place the cream on the biscuit and spread it over the entire surface with a knife. Top with the banana circles.

Put the cream back on top and spread it over the entire surface with a knife.

Then top with the second cake and repeat the previous step. Soak the biscuit with syrup, distribute the cream, lay out the bananas, distribute the cream. Top with the third cake.

Spread the remaining cream over the entire surface of the cake. Align the surface and sides with a knife or spatula

Make the chocolate glaze. How to make a glaze? Preheat the cream to 80-85C (they should get noticeably hot) and pour them into a bowl. Finely chop the chocolate and add it to the cream. I used chocolate drops instead of bar chocolate.

Stir the chocolate until it is completely melted. If the cream cools quickly and the chocolate does not melt, put the bowl in a water bath, and stirring, melt the chocolate to the end.

Cool the glaze to room temperature and pour over the cake. You can water the entire surface of the cake, or decorate the cake only at the edges, as I did.

Cut the banana for decoration into pieces and spread it around the edge of the cake. I cut the banana into large pieces, you can cut it into thin ones and decorate the entire surface of the cake with them. The cake is ready. Place it in the fridge for soaking for 2 hours, then serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!