Raw Banana Cake With Chocolate Drizzle

Raw Banana Cake With Chocolate Drizzle

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I came across Raw Banana Flour at my upmarket grocer's. I grabbed it and grazed on the net for recipes. I was excited to learn that I could bake a cake with it, exactly the way I use wholewheat flour. The only difference is that it is denser, so half a cup works like almost one cup of wholewheat flour. With Diwali around the corner, I jazzed it up with a little chocolate icing.

Ingredients

Raw Banana Flour – ½ cup

Cocoa Powder – ½ cup

Jaggery powder – 1 cup

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Baking soda – ½ tsp

Eggs – 2

Butter (melted) –1 tbsp

Curds (sour) – 3/4 cup or more

Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp

Method

Mix the dry ingredients well

Beat the eggs well and add to the dry mixture

Add curds, essence and melted butter to it

Mix. Add more curds if required

Bake in a preheated oven (170 degrees) for 35 to 45 mins till a knife inserted into it comes out clean

Let it cool in the oven 

Chocolate Icing

Melt a piece of cooking chocolate with little water in a microwave

It should be of a drizzling consistency

You can pour it over the cake or make some design with it

Health Benefits Of Banana Flour

Source of resistant starch

Gluten free replacement to wheat flours

Rich in potassium and magnesium

Rich in vitamin E

Satisfies carb cravings

Keeps us full for longer 

Controls blood sugar levels