What I want to eat every single day.
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It's been 3 months, but,
here's the recipe to my
banana chocolate swirl brownie birthday cake!Adapted from:
Smitten Kitchen's "Pumpkin Swirl Brownies" recipe and
Modern Domestic's "Alex's Chocolate Chunk Banana 'Brownies' " recipe!
It was my first time using my oven, since, uh, 3 years ago?
I share a less than friendly relationship with my oven,
since no matter what I put in, what degree I turn
the oven to, what time I set the timer, or what color
was the mixture before I popped it into the oven,
what came out was always
burnt. And unsurprisingly for this baking attempt,
it happened again!
Fortunately, I was able to scrape off the
burnt parts with a knife.
Banana Chocolate Swirl Brownie Ingredients:
4 cups of flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder
2 sticks (16 teaspoons or 8 ounces) of butter
12 ounces of chopped dark chocolate
1 teaspoon of salt
1 to 1 1/4 cups of sugar
8 large eggs
8 bananas
4 teaspoons of cinnamon
1. Preheat oven to 350 degree, butter pan so it won't stick
2. Melt chocolate and half of the butter in bowl over a pan of
water
3. Whisk flour and salt in one bowl, and mix sugar and eggs
in another. When done, put the two mixtures together
4. Pour 1/2 of the batter in a separate bowl and stir in
chocolate, pour in more batter if it gets too thick.
5. Mash bananas, cinnamon, and rest of the butter together.
When done, add mixture to the rest of the batter and mix.
6.Pour half of the banana batter in to the pan, then
pour all of the chocolate batter into the ban. Pour the rest
of the banana batter into the pan, and gently swirl the layers
using a spatula or a knife from the bottom of the pan.
7. Bake 40-45 minutes till set.
Result? The "brownie" rose a lot because of the unknown
amount of baking powder included in the flour mixture that
I had gotten. And I did a major miscalculation, so I should
have used 8 bananas instead of 4. Worst still was that I
didn't mash the bananas before I mixed it into the batter
because I had missed the step since I was working in such
a hurry,so in the end the banana was scattered all over the
cake in little pieces.
I couldn't really taste the chocolate either, probably because
I didn't mix the chocolate and the batter so well. Oh right,
and I had only used 6 ounces of chocolate.
Oh, and I just thought of all sorts of miscalculations
that I had made.
Lesson? Don't leave your essays till last minute.
I was hurrying to finish the cake so I could finish an essay.
Lesson learned?
Not quite, I still got that 4000 word essay to finish up.