My mom and i came up with this in the grocery store, while we were trying to figure out what to do with the leftover garbanzo beans. As we were cruising the aisle my mom mentioned cooking with coconut, but then suddenly fell silent as though her brain was getting high and finally got high enough and achieved the goal of seeing purple unicorns. All while i was blathering on about trying another banana pie again, since i love them bananas and fried they’re delicious.
Somehow she came up with bananas+ coconut= awesome. Cause it filled both our happy meters, i like bananas and she coconut ( mostly cooking with it though) We did more improvising when we got home though, i suggested the coco nibs but since there was a small amount left i just tossed it all in. Anyway I’m too lazy so my mom will finish this entry more quickly then I.
bananas in the blender
OK, I, admin, have take over the rest of this.
OK, so of course the first thing one must do is purré the bananas. We decided that all liquid would go into the blender, and all the dry stuff would just be mixed in a bowel.
Cartoonist took over the liquid bits and I took over the dry bits. I think it was that there were bananas.
Dry mix
As mentioned above, I thought it would be fun to cook the cake with coconut flour. I needed a base recipe, and although I love the Broccoli Forest, it is not gluten free cooking. I thought ti might be easier to use one of my gluten free books, but Baby Cakes didn’t have anything I wanted to start with. No base recipes. So I went to my other gluten free book called, strangely enough “Gluten-Free Baking”. I haven’t liked anything from it yet, but what the heck, I was just looking for a base.
Did I following the recipe, even a little, well sort of. Here is what we did to it. For liquid we put in 6 bananas, 1/2 cup of coco nibs, capful of vanilla and capful of almound, one stick of melted button, 3 eggs, and one cup of soy milk.
The mix waiting to be bakes
For dry part I put in 2 and a half cups of coconut flour, 1 cup of raw sugar, 1/2 cup of almond meal, 1/1/2 table spoons of baking powder, 3/4 teaspoon of Xanthan gum, and a dash of salt. I mixed in my corner, and cartoonist ran the blender loud and long in her corner, and then we looked for a bowl to mix it all together. Everything was in the dishwasher, as we have been cooking every day this week. I had to dash into the running dishwasher to find a bowl for the dry stuff, but we had to wash out a bowl for the two to be combined.
Finished cake
We mixed it all up and poured it into the cake pans, and popped both into the oven. I had no idea what to expect.
What I should have done was a) grease the pans more and b) smooth out the cake more, but that can be done if we decide to make this one again. It was hard to get out of the pan when it was all said and done, but it did taste good. Just not show quality.
On the other hand, I have had things come out easily from the pans, and that had nothing to do with their quality. The lump that was the bread came out very well. It was a brick, but it came out when it was done.
Good enough to eat
And so, we come to the end of another failed, or not so failed attempt.
