Caramel Cheese Cube Banana Cake

This is my second time baking the Banana-Caramel Cake.
I followed  exactly the recipe from Piggy's Cooking Journal for the first time. The taste of the banana cake has changed after adding caramel sauce and  beating some cream cheese into the cake.

My friends who tried the cake told me that it is better to make it a “ Banana Cake ” ,  otherwise, the cake would lose its originality as a banana cake.

So,  this gave me an idea of  making a banana cake but with  more cream cheese cube to be added in the cake, then caramel sauce as topping to the cake. Hence, I have changed the name of the cake to " Caramel Cheese Cube Banana Cake"  Voila ！

The caramel  sauce has the "burnt effect" and seemed a bit bitter . 2 Tablespoons of condense milk was added to the caramel sauce. They were perfectly matched and the bitterness has gone.






Caramel Cheese Cube Banana Cake : ( using 3 eggs , 8"x 8" square pan )

1) To prepare caramel sauce:
1. 50 g castor sugar - cook in a sauce pan.
2. + 1 tbsp water + 2 tbsp liquid whipping cream after the caramel is done.
3. + 2 tbsp condense milk when the caramel completely gets cool.


Ingredients :
3  large eggs  ( about 70 g each )
70 g castor sugar  ( * I take less sugar)  or you can increase sugar to 100 g or more for a sweeter banana cake )
150 g butter
170 g flour + 1 tsp baking powder  + 1/8 tsp bicarbonate of soda - sieve together
120 g banana , mash it with a fork

100 g cream cheese , cut into cubes :  about 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 inch


2.) To prepare egg white foam:
  1. Beat  3 egg whites +  1/8 tsp cream of tartar. Beat 5 mins , speed 3 until a stiff peak is formed)

3.) Cake:
1. Beat butter + sugar  until fluffy + 3 egg yolk , one at a time. Speed 3, mix well.
2. Sieve in  flour (+ 1 tsp baking powder + 1/8 tsp bicarbonate of soda) . Mix well with a spoon.
3. + 1 tbsp water + 1 drop of banana essence. （ mix well before adding into the flour mixture)
4. + banana + cream cheese cubes
5. + egg white foam. Mix lightly and thoroughly.( with a spoon).Pour the mixture into a greased-paper pan.
6. Arrange slices of banana on the cake before baking.
7. Preheated Oven:  temperature - 180 C
     Baking time : 45 to 50 mins.

Sonia - The Nasi Lemak Lover also made this banana cake on the same day. You may take a look of how she presented her banana cake.

Chocolate Chip Muffins

I stumbled upon The English Kitchen and know that Marie makes a lot of good muffins. You may visit her blog to know what she bakes recently.

I have chosen this Chocolate Chip Muffins as my nieces like chocolate chips very much.

Some changes were made to the recipe :

1. Less sugar was used because the chocolate chips that I bought are quite sweet. 

2. Evaporated creamer was added instead of milk

3. No walnut in the muffins.

Chocolate Chip Muffins ( 10 muffins)

A . Dry ingredients: ( Stir until all well blended in a bowl )
200 g flour
50 g sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
180 g chocolate chips

B. Wet Ingredients: ( Stir well in another  bowl )

2  large beaten eggs ( about 70 g each)
150 ml evaporated creamer / milk
100 ml melt butter or 1/2 cup melt butter
1 tsp vanilla essence


Method:
1. Pre-heat the oven to 200 C .
2..Pour B into A  -----> stir together until combine and look lumpy.
3. Spoon batter into the paper cups.
4. Baking temperature - 200 C.
     Baking time : 20 mins