Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Banana Refrigerator Cake


This week was "free choice" for the bake-through. I had every intention of making the Designer Chocolate Baby Grands but I had all these over-ripe bananas begging to be baked into a cake. So I made the Banana Refrigerator Cake. I used orange zest instead of the lemon zest. I am not a big fan of the banana /lemon combination. Instead of the white chocolate cream cheese buttercream, I used the Light Whipped Ganache.(recipe is from The Cake Bible)

This is my new favourite banana cake. It was really moist and tender.

10 comments:

  1. Beautiful. I have never had banana cake but love banana bread.

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  2. I'm with Virginia (or its Toni?) with this, love banana bread, but not cake... I do like the combination of the chocolate ganache - never would I have thought of that.

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  3. Your cake turned out great! That is indeed a very good banana cake recipe. My friend made them into muffins and frosted them cream cheese frosting (not from RHC).

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  4. Looks great! Love your pairing of banana, orange and chocolate. Light whipped ganache is a long-time favorite of mine, just seeing yours has me wondering when I can make it again!

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  5. Thank you Toni, Monica, Hanaâ, Vicki and Julie. It really was a delicious cake. Give it a try the next time you have over-ripe bananas sitting around.
    Julie, you can always make a batch and send it over to me :)

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  6. I love, love, love, love this cake. It is amazing. It is equally good without frosting, but it is sensational with the white cream cheese one.

    I too leave out the lemon zest now, just because I can't be bothered to put it in and I couldn't taste it in the end cake.

    Banana and chocolate - awesome!

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  7. ב''ה

    I also made the banana cake. It was wonderful.

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  8. Looks great. I like the banana chocolate combo.

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  9. Yummo! I could really go for a slice!

    :)
    ButterYum

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