I am so thrilled while writing this post. This is my third trial in eggless as well as butter less baking. I started my experiment with this. This is my third effort and it has turned out super soft, moist as I wanted, and much healthier than my other two. Here I have used fruit as well as whole wheat.
In my first experiment I was happy with the result but I was looking for more moistness in the cake. It felt like bread and not like a cake ;-). So, I had added very small amount of fat content in the second trial, in this. It was soft and came out good, but not exactly how I wanted. Moistness was absent in that too.
Here I have used raw flax seed which is powdered at first, then boiled in water like earlier couple of attempts.
I felt this worked out much more appropriately than the other two types.
In this method, Gel was much slimier and appeared exactly like an egg.
Ingredients:
Whole wheat flour – 1 ½ cups
Sugar – ¾ cup
Mashed banana – 1 cup
Flax gel – ½ cup
Baking powder – ¾ tsp
Cooking soda – ¾ tsp
Salt – ½ tsp
Cinnamon powder – one pinch.
Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
Curd – 1/3 cup to ¼ cup (according to requirement)
For Caramelised base :
Brown sugar – ½ cup
Butter – 2 tbl sp. (chilled)
Banana roundels – As needed.
Method:
How to make flax gel: Take 2 tsp of flax seed, make powder. Put this powder in thick bottomed small pan, add one cup of water and boil until it is thick, slimy and reduced to almost half.
-Now make banana slices (half inch thick) ,keep it ready.
– Now take one baking tin in which you want to bake this cake. Brush some oil at the base. Spread brown sugar uniformly and take butter, make small cubes and place it here and there.
-Place this in a pre-heated oven at 180C for 6 to 8 minutes until the sugar has melted. Remove from the oven, mix this liquid nicely and place banana roundels in regular intervals and keep aside.
– Now Take all dry ingredients like flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon powder and sieve together couple of times or mix using dry wire whisk.
– Now take another bowl, beat all the wet ingredients like, flax gel, vanilla, sugar, mashed banana
-. When it becomes frothy, fold in the dry ingredient mixture. If you feel this batter is too thick, then adjust the consistency by adding curds.
– Pour this ready batter to the cake tin in which you placed banana slices .
-Bake this in a pre-heated ready oven at 180C for 40 to 50 minutes or until done. If you insert knife, it should come out clean.
-Remove once it is done. When it is cool, de mould and serve.
– Here I took caramel which was stuck on the base of the baking dish, put it in a microwave cup, re heated it and poured as a sauce to give saucy texture.(You can see that in topmost picture)
Over all it was PURE BLISS.
