Showing posts with label banana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banana. Show all posts

Monday, June 27, 2011

Cinnamon - banana rolls with whole wheat flour


Unfortunately not all of it is made of whole wheat flour, because I'm always afraid that the dough is gonna be too thick if I only use whole wheat (although the yeast made it quite airy). At the beginning I wanted to put the banana in the dough but it would have been too soft, so the banana became the stuffing. Maybe it's better like this, the taste is stronger. 

Ingredients
  • 20 dkg of whole wheat flour
  • 25 dkg of Graham flour
  • 20 dkg of plain flour
  • 10 dkg of sugar
  • 4 dl of milk
  • 10 dkg of butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1 packet of instant yeast
  • a pinch of salt 
  • 3 bananas 
  • 2 tbl spoons of ground cinnamon 
  • 1 egg for the wash

Put the milk, the butter and the sugar in a pan and start cooking it on a very low fire. You don't need to boil it, just make the sugar and the butter melt in the milk. Meanwhile measure the flour and mix it with the salt and the yeast. I usually make the dough in a bread baking machine. When the milk is ready stir a beaten egg into it. Pour the mixture into the machine with the flour and start making the dough. 
While the machine is doing its job, smash the bananas with a fork and mix it with the cinnamon. Strech the dough quite big and slush the stuffing on it. Start rolling it up starting from the longer side. When it's done, start cutting it in 2 cm wide slices. Put the pieces on an oven pan and give them an egg wash. Cook them in the oven at 200 deg Celsius for 15 minutes. Let it cool and then you can eat it.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Peach cake with a banana impulse





Ingredients (for a cake frame of 28 cm)

The crust
  • 10 dkg of stone ground wheat
  • 2 eggs
  • half a dl of oil
  • 2 packets of vanilin sugar
  • 8 ladyfingers smashed
  • uice of half a lemon
  • peel of a lemon
  • additional sweetening if necessary
The filling
  • one banana
  • two packets of canned peaches
  • apricot jam
  • walnut
  • almond chips
  • sesame seeds
Measure the wheat for the crust and add the two eggs. Add the vanilin sugar, the lemon juice, the peel of the lemon, the oil and the ladyfingers. Knead the whole thing until you get a batter that you can stretch. Strech it according to the size of the frame and put it into the frame in which you previously put baking paper.
Put apricot jam onto the batter, and put the sliced banana onto the jammed layer. Start laying the peach sliced too. In an appropiate moment add some extra apricot jam between two layers of peach. Then comes the rest of the peach. Sprinkle the sesame seeds, almond chips and the chopped walnuts onto the whole cake. It needs 20-30 minutes at 180 deg.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Upgraded sugar free fruit cake, presents itself as a birthday cake.



I deleted the previous fruit cake recipe, because this is practically the same, except for being better because I made the bottom crust of the cake as well. And we managed to take a picture of it this time :)

 Its the same thing as muffin dough, a bit changed, so that it wont be too heavy or light either. Its about the half of the normal amount that I would use for cupcakes.

Ingredients for the bottom crust  (12 slices):
It contains some sugar just because I wasn't sure it would work out without it, but it can absolutely be left out!
  • 13 dkg-s of wheat
  •  2 eggs, divided
  • 10dkgs of sugar, or sweetening instead
  • half of a packet of baking powder
  • a little bit of vanilla flavour
  • about a half dl of milk
Mix the sugar with the egg yolk and the milk and add the vanilla flavour. Mix the flour with the baking powder. Add the flour to the moist ingredients, and stir it with a whisk. It has to be like a cream. Beat the egg-white and add it to the rest, stir it with a spoon. Pour it into the frame, and bake it for 20 minutes at most, at 165-170 deg. Mine became a bit downy, so i cut off those parts :)

Ingredients for the cream:
  • 8 dls of yoghurt
  • sweetening
  • the grated skin of one lemon
  • the juice of half of the lemon
  • raisins according to taste
  • 1 packet of gelatine sheets
  • some of the strawberries, chopped
Mix the yoghurt with the sweetening, the lemon juice and the lemon skin. You can add the raisins and the strawberries. Disolve the gelatine sheets in hot water, and add it to the youghurt. Pour it onto the bottom of the cake and let it cool for an hour in the fridge.

Trick: If you put some apicot jam mixed with gelatine onto the bottom of the cake, it wont get soaked.

Fruits:
  • strawberries, banana, orange
  • 2-3 dls of orange juice
  • another packet of gelatine sheets
The cream in the fridge in an hour hardens just enough that we can put the fruits on it. I put a layer of bananas under the strawberries, and it spiced it up really good. If we have everything we wanted on it, pour the previously heated orange juice, which contains the disolved gelatine already. Put it back to the fridge, until the whole stuff hardens perfectly.