Chocolate cake with bananas

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make chocolate cake with bananas? First of all, prepare a biscuit. How to make a biscuit? Break the eggs into a bowl and mix lightly with a whisk. Add the sugar and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved. If the sugar does not dissolve well, put the bowl on a water bath, heat it to warm (not hot! conditions), and, stirring with a whisk, dissolve the sugar.

2. Step 2:

   

   Then beat the eggs with sugar with a mixer on high speed until a light creamy mass is obtained. The mass will increase by about 3 times.

3. Step 3:

   

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

4. Step 4:

   

   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 butter, mix well. Then pour the resulting mass back into the dough and mix well again.

5. Step 5:

   

   Cover the baking dish with parchment, make a side of it. Pour the dough into a mold and send it to the oven, preheated to 180 ° C. Bake the sponge cake for 20-25 minutes. I use a mold with a diameter of 16 cm. The side and bottom of the parchment are more convenient to cut with scissors.

6. Step 6:

   

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

7. Step 7:

   

   Cut the biscuit into three pieces.

8. Step 8:

   

   Prepare the cream. How to make a cream? Melt the chocolate in a water bath. To do this, pour water into a saucepan, put it on the stove and wait until the water boils. Remove the saucepan from the stove and put a bowl of chocolate on top, after breaking it finely. 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.

9. Step 9:

   

   Whisk cream with a mixer into a fluffy mass until soft peaks.

10. Step 10:

    

    Add the cooled chocolate to the cream and beat with a mixer until a thick cream of uniform color is obtained.

12. Step 11:

    

    Cut the bananas into thin circles.

13. Step 12:

    

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

14. Step 13:

    

    Put the cream on the sponge cake and spread it over the entire surface with a knife. Place the banana slices on top.

15. Step 14:

    

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

16. Step 15:

    

    Then put the second cake on top and repeat the previous step. Soak the sponge cake with syrup, distribute the cream, lay out the bananas, distribute the cream. Put the third cake on top.

17. Step 16:

    

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

18. Step 17:

    

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

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

20. Step 19:

    

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

21. Step 20:

    

    Cut the banana into pieces for decoration and put them on 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. Put it in the refrigerator for impregnation for 2 hours, then serve it to the table. Bon appetit!