The term has begun! You are facing new challenges every day, and loving every moment of it (Right?). You’re feeling up for anything. How about a little baking challenge?
This cake is a chocolate banana cake, so first get yourself some chocolate… and eat it, since the cake actually doesn’t have any chocolate in it. Psych!
What you actually need is cocoa, bananas, flour, salt, baking soda, butter, sugar, eggs, and sour cream or thick yogurt (Greek yogurt, if you will). You can use flavoured yogurt, but the key lime or mango or coconut or whatever hipster flavour you use will get swamped by the delicious chocolate, so there’s no point.
Before you start, grease a pan and sprinkle flour on it. A bundt pan is best- if you don’t know what that is, you lose your hipster license. Mix together 1.5 cups of mashed banana and a cup of your preferred dairy goop. In another bowl, mix together the dry ingredients: 1.25 cups of flour, 0.75 cups of cocoa powder 1.5 teaspoons of baking soda, and 0.5 teaspoons of salt.
Then, beat together the sugar and butter- 1.5 cups of sugar and 0.75 cups of butter. Stop licking it, right now! I know it tastes good, but you are trying to make a cake here. When your mixture is creamy, beat in three eggs and keep on beating till it is smooth again.
Add half of the dry mixture, then all of the banana and hipster milk. When this is all stirred, add in the rest of the flour. It must be in this order, apparently to appease the baking gods. Just do it that way.
Bake it for about an hour at 350°C. You will know that it is done when is has risen, and a toothpick poked into it comes out clean. You should know the drill by now. Afterwards allow the cake to cool.
You can make icing for it, or just eat it plain. You can also put fruits on it; any fruits you like, except watermelon. That would be weird. Ice cream is also a good idea.
Enjoy your baking while you can. It’s only the beginning of term, and you may be able to squeeze out some time…In a few weeks, you will need quick, easy comfort food. Your hipsterhood will melt away, and baking will become a thing of the past. But never mind your future troubles! Relax, and let them eat cake.
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