I got this idea from the same MILK trip mentioned below. They had a banana dulce de leche ice cream which we would have bought if we weren’t so excited about the idea of rum raisin battles. I love the idea of caramelized bananas and I spent entirely too much time dreaming up ideas of how to incorporate this into cake form. I’ve been in an experimental mood lately. Sometimes my baking experiments go very badly (whipped cream profiteroles, a soggy strawberry nancy cake, adzuki red bean brownies, etc) but sometimes, surprisingly things just work. This experiment worked. My only things was that I overfilled my cake molds and so they spilled over the sides in a sadly unattractive way but there are worse things that could have happened. This recipe makes about 5-6 cakettes or 1 large bundt cake
Ingredients:
2-3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sour cream
2 large bananas mashed
1 tablespoon + 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 eggs, room temp
1 1/2 sticks of butter, room temp
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cup dulce de leche
1 cup walnuts
1 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1. preheat oven to 350
2. beat butter and sugar until fluffy
3. in a large bowl mix together the sour cream, mashed bananas, eggs, and vanilla extract
4. sift together flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder
5. in a large bowl mix the dulce de leche, chocolate chips, walnuts, and cinnamon and set aside
6. alternately add the sour cream/egg mixture and flour mixture into the butter/sugar mixture into 3 separate additions until just combined
7. in a pan of your choice (5-6 mini cake pans or 1 large bundt pan) add a layer of the batter
8. spread a layer of the dulce de leche mixture over the batter. the dulce de leche will be clumpy so use a rubber spatula to loosely spread it around
9. layer again with batter
10. keep doing this until your mold is 3/4 full, ending with a layer of dulce de leche
11. bake time depends on the size of your pan but a bundt cake should take about 1 hour and the mini cakes take about 40 minutes
