I wanted to make it the very next day but I realised that I forgot to buy the baking powder *slaps forehead* So gotta wait till we went grocery shopping during the weekend. So, after I got the baking powder, I realised that I didn’t have a ripe banana *slaps forehead again* I got some bananas on Monday but have to wait till they are really ripe. Today, the banana was just right and I finally began my project 😉 Fyi, this is the first time in my life that I tried to make a cake. I don’t have an oven so this recipe is really fantastic as I only need to steam it 😀
Put all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk them
All ready for steaming
After 15 mins, this is the result. My hubby said it looked like a big pau =) Made him eat some 😉 It was pretty ok, not too sweet but not fluffy enough. Guess it’s because I put less baking powder (1 teaspoon) than the recipe called for as I didn’t want it to taste bitter. Next time I’ll use 2 bananas instead of 1 because I prefer a more banana taste 🙂
pssst…if you haven’t noticed, I’ve got the same plate as Chow Times 😉
Here is the recipe :-
1 ripe banana, mashed
1 egg (can be substituted with 50ml of milk or water; I once ran out of egg and substituted with water and it worked fine)
1 teaspoon oil
2 teaspoons water
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 cup icing sugar
100g (close to 1 cup) all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons of semi-sweet chocolate chips or raisins, optional
Mix everything up and steam it for 15 to 18 minutes.
Ashley eating her mommy’s first steamed banana cake and giving a thumbs up (yes, yes, it’s me who asked her to put her thumb up) She didn’t want a second helping after that ……boo hoo
*chewing* sigh…mommy…..another photo? ok, ok, another thumbs up
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Wah wah..somebody got hidden talent wor. Haha..Ashley’s expression is so funny.
Interesting. Why icing sugar and not castor.
Hmmm…
If she likes it…it’s good! More then?
yummy! i also love banana cakes. must try your recipe one day
the steam banana cake virus came to u…..
good try..
actually i found that the cake tastes yummy with baking soda instead of baking powder. but if you want to put baking soda then cannot put too much as the cake will turn bitter.
Wahh..you also went to bake this cake ah? Hmmm..I should try one day then. Oh ya…why icing sugar ha? Not castor meh?
Good try, I also make one before follow chowtimes. More banana taste better.
I like banana cake too. 1 day must try it out. I have a award for you.
http://beemoon80.blogspot.com/2008/11/superior-scribbler-award.html
Wah!! U also into baking!!!! tsk tsk tsk!!
So next time when i see you, you’re going to bake this for me ya.;)
Haha. Everyone oso wanna bake this steamed banana cake cos its so easy peasy. 🙂
I LOVE banana cakes! Will give it a try someday. Haha. Ashley looks so cute in the pictures. 😉
ahhh…. i am going to do this cake too… because i don’t have an oven here in China. Will steam this cake next week, when i got the banana riped!
Having baking fever?? Hehe…
This is soooo spooky! You’re right, the plate is exactly the same as ours. I remember we got it from an outlet store in Bellingham for something like $1 each because they were what they called a “transition” batch where the whiteness is not exactly very white. They all looked the same to us. For $1, we could not resist and bought dozens of pieces of the collection. They no longer make this design anymore. BTW, enjoyed reading your site! And thanks for the plug.
Ben
yor, i love banana cakes le, i really need to try this man!
Hi Chumsy: That is easy. I used blogsearch to track all incoming links to chowtimes.com. You can do that too by something like this (lifted it off my wordpress admin screen and changed the URL to yours):
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss&partner=wordpress&q=link:http://chumsyashley.blogspot.com/
Sounds easy to prepare. Less hassle, steaming it. Thks for sharing this recipe.
Ah u also tried! easy peasy right?