Banana and Rum Cake
Banana rum cake — a moist cake pairing ripe bananas with rum.
Ingredients
ripe bananas (peeled and mashed)
2
lemon juice
juice of 1 lemon
flour
250 g
70% chocolate (shredded with a grater)
100 g
granulated sugar
120 g
salted butter (softened and cut into small cubes, plus 20g reserved for greasing the mold)
120 g
eggs
2
yeast
1 bag
rum
2 cl
vanilla extract
1 tsp
salt
a pinch
Instructions
1
Make banana mash
Peel the bananas, mash them thoroughly with a fork. Pour in the lemon juice and rum.
2
Cream butter and sugar
In a large bowl, mix the butter and sugar. Once the mixture turns translucent, add the eggs one at a time and stir.
3
Combine the batter
Shred the chocolate with a grater. In another bowl, mix the flour, yeast and salt. Then pour this into the butter-sugar mixture, mix thoroughly, then add the banana mash and vanilla extract.
4
Bake
Thoroughly grease and flour a rectangular baking mold. Pour the batter into the mold, place the mold on a baking sheet and put it in the oven. Bake at 180°C for approximately 40 minutes. After removing from the oven, you can drizzle 3 to 4 tablespoons of rum to enhance the flavor.