27 Jul Banana split cake with mascarpone frosting
My improved, soft, tender, fluffy and moist white cake with a classic white frosting.
Banana Oil Cake
Ingredients
- 200 g Mashed ripe bananas (the ripper the better)
- 200 g Cake flour
- 150 g Sugar
- 2 tsp. Baking powder
- 50 ml Whole milk
- 100 g Vegetable Oil
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F / 160°C. Butter and flour three round 5 x 3.5 inch / 12.7 x 9 cm cake pans or two round 6 inches / 15 cm cake pans.
- Sift cake flour and baking powder together. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the flat beater, beat mashed banans, oil, eggs, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla extract until combined.
- Add sugar slowly beating at medium speed.
- Add the flour mixture. Beat on low speed just to integrate the flour rising up to medium-hight speed until smooth.
- Pour the mixture evenly into cake pans and bakea about 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Cool the cakes in their pans on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Place a wire rack on top of the cake pan and invert, lifting off the pan. Let cool at room temperature.
Chocolate Ganache
Ingredients
- 150 g Bittersweet chocolate crushed (Best quality)
- 150 g Cream
- 1tsp Pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a small saucepan mix Cream and vanilla extract. Bring pan over medium heat stirring ingredients to dissolve completely and until almost boil.
- Pour hot mixture over over crushed chocolate. Let rest about 1 minute moving the bowl with your hands.
- Start mixing gently with a spoon until chocolate melts completely.
- Let the Ganache rest a couple of hours at room temperature until it has a spreadable consistency.
Whipped Mascarpone Frosting
Ingredients
- 150 g Mascarpone cheese – cold
- 75 g Heavy cream
- 20 g Icing sugar
- 1tsp Pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Place the bowl and the whisk of your stand mixer in the freezer 15 minutes before preparing the frosting.
- Start whipping mascarpone and sugar until smooth.
- Add cream and whip
until stiff peaks.
To assemble and decorate the cake
- If cakes are domed on top, even out with a knife or a cake leveler.
- Add a little bit of frosting on a cake board and place the first layer of cake over it. Use your hands to press down over the cake.
- Spread some chocolate ganache and mascarpone frosting over the cake and put some fresh strawberries on top.
- Melt some of the ganache, let it cool and pour over the cake.
- Enjoy.