Caramelized cake with bananas

8 servings
3 hours 30 min

To make cream as soft cheese, I recommend using Philadelphia or Mascarpone cheese, you can also use other curd cheeses, but they should be soft. They may even be a little salty, which will give an extra twist to this dessert. Also, a pinch of salt can be added to the sand base. Another very interesting cooking option would be to add crushed salt straws to the sand crumb. In general, there is still where to turn around!

How to make a cake caramelized with bananas? Prepare the products. Any shortbread cookie, such as Yubileiny, is suitable. Cream is necessarily fat, at least 33%, natural and high-quality. Also oil, choose a product without milk fat substitutes.

Make a sand base for the cake. Using a meat grinder or blender, grind the cookies into crumbs. You can use the rolling pin. Melt the butter in any available way and cool. Combine the biscuit crumbs with the melted butter and mix them thoroughly to make all the crumbs wet.

Grab a detachable pastry ring for the future cake, set 18 centimetres in diameter and pour butter-soaked crumbs inside. Compress the crumbs to form the bottom and sides of the future cake. Remove the mold with the base to the refrigerator for 2 hours. If there is no confectionery ring, a baking dish of also small diameter can be used.

Make the caramel. Pour sugar sand into a thick-bottomed saucepan, place the saucepan over a heat and melt the sugar until it is completely dissolved and a beautiful amber colour.

Reduce the heat, pour in the warmed fat cream and stir. Remove the pan from the heat, add the butter and stir until completely dissolved. Add the salt and boil the caramel for a further 2 minutes over a low heat. Cool the caramel to room temperature,

Place the cooled caramel on a sand base, setting aside 1 tablespoon for the cream.

Peel the bananas and cut into circles. Place the chopped bananas on top of the caramel.

Make the cream. Whisk the chilled cream into a strong foam, starting with small revolutions and gradually going to maximum. Gradually, in the process of whipping, introduce sugar powder into them.

Using a mixer, stir the soft cream cheese and the left caramel.

Gently stir the whipped cream with a silicone spatula with the caramel cream cheese.

Put the resulting cream on a layer of bananas, sprinkle the top of the cake with chocolate crumbs on top. Put the cake in the fridge for 2 hours to cool and stabilize. Then serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!

How to beat cream correctly? It is important that the cream is fat, at least 33%. Whipping utensils and the cream itself should be cold, hold them for at least 1-2 hours in the fridge. Beat with a mixer at minimum RPM, gradually increasing the speed. How do you know that the cream is whipped enough? The cream mass should maintain its shape and not spread. Stop whipping at this point. Otherwise, the cream will turn into oil.

Butter can be melted in a microwave or in a water bath. How to melt butter in the microwave? Cut the butter into small pieces and place in a special container. To prevent oil from splashing when heated, cover the oil vessel with a paper towel. The oil should be melted either at the lowest capacity or in defrosting mode. In the beginning, five seconds is enough. Next, if the oil has not yet melted, reinstall for 5 seconds and start the microwave. Repeat the process multiple times to the desired result. How to melt oil correctly in a water bath? Two vessels of different diameters will be needed. Pour water into a large one and place on the stove. Install a smaller container on top so as to immerse it in water about half. Put the sliced butter in it. Under the influence of boiling water, the oil will begin to melt. Stir the oil lightly to speed up the process. Once the oil pieces have completely dissolved, remove the container from the stove.

Important! Shape size should match the number of ingredients. If you do not have a shape suitable for the recipe diameter or want to bake a pie or cake of a larger or smaller size, an article on how to choose the shape of the desired diameter will help you make the right calculations and make no mistake.