Banana Cake


Method 1

Ingredients :

Bananas - 3 nos
Milk - 1 cup
Soda powder - 1/2 tsp
Refined flour - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/2 spoon

Method of Preparation:

Mix milk, sugar and bananas finely in a vessel. Sieve the soda powder and flour together. Add this to the banana mixture and mix well. Also add the cardamom powder. Transfer the contents into a greased vessel and bake in an oven for 1/2 an hour


Black Forest Sponge Cake
Ingredients :

Egg - 4 nos
Sugar - 1 cup
Brandy - 2 tsp
Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp
Finely ground orange skin - a little
Butter - 1 dsp
Cocoa powder - 4 dsp
Warm milk - 1/4 cup
Refined flour - 1 cup
Soda bicarbonate - 1/2 tsp



Method :

Mix brandy, vanilla essence and the ground orange skin together. Beat the eggs well adding sugar intermittently. Add the brandy mixture to it and beat again.

Mix butter, cocoa powder and slightly warm milk and make a thick, fine batter. Add this to the egg mixture slowly. Sieve flour and soda bicarbonate together and put it over the egg mixture. Mix all the ingredients lightly with a ladle. Grease a vessel with butter and sprinkle with flour all over. Pour the cake mixture into the vessel and bake in a preheated oven.

Ingredients for Butter Icing :

Butter - 50 gm
Icing sugar - 100 gm
Lime juice - 1 tsp

Mix the ingredients finely and spread it over the cake.

Ingredients for chocolate covering :

Icing sugar - 100 gm
Butter - 50 gm
Cocoa powder - 1/4 cup
Water - 3 dsp

Make a batter with the cocoa powder and water. Beat butter and icing sugar. Add the coco mixture in it and beat again. Apply it over and around the cake.


Caramelised Cake
Ingredients :

1. Refined flour - 1/4kg
Baking powder - 1/2tsp
Soda powder - 1/4tsp 3. Egg - 4nos
4. Sugar - 1/4cup
Boiled water - 1/2cup
2. Butter - 1/4kg
Finely Powdered sugar - 1/4kg 5. Vanilla essence - 1/2tsp

Method of Preparation:

Sift the 1st ingredients together. Beat the butter and powdered sugar, adding the yolks of four eggs one by one to this. Beat well. Mix it well with the sieved flour.

Heat a thick bottom vessel. Sauté 1/4cup sugar continuously until reddish brown (do not allow to burn). Add boiled water and remove from fire when the sugar solution thickens. Allow it to cool.

Beat the sugar syrup. Add it to the cake mixture and mix well.

Beat the egg white well with the vanilla essence. Pour it into the cake mixture and beat all the ingredients together. Bake the cake in a preheated oven at 3500C, for one hour.

Ingredients for icing and decoration:

Cashew nuts cut into small pieces - 1/2cup
Sugar - 1/4cup
Soda powder - a pinch
Icing sugar - 200gm
Butter - 100gm
Lime juice - 1/4tsp


Method :

Fry the cashew nuts in some ghee and keep it aside. Make a light coloured sugar syrup (as explained above) in a thick bottom vessel. Add a pinch of soda powder to the boiling syrup. Add fried cashew nuts pieces to it and pour the contents into a greased vessel uniformly and leave it to cool. When it is done grind it coarsely or cut it into tiny cubes. Keep these pieces over the cake before the icing dries.

For Icing:

Beat the butter and the icing sugar. Add drops of lime juice while beating it. Apply the icing evenly over the cake