I guess you can say that this past weekend was a busy one for baking. I wasn’t really planning on making the cranberry buckle on the Saturday, but I made one and it went quickly. On Sunday, my mother realized that there were some really overripe bananas lying around. She asked me to make a cake with them. It just happened that I was feeling kind of enthusiastic so I did it.
Thing is, after I started I started finding out that I didn’t have all the required ingredients. To start out, the recipe called for 4-6 banana, but I only had 3 so I halved the recipe. Fine. No big deal, right? I creamed the butter and sugar, then added the egg and vanilla. When I went to measure out the flour, I ran out of the white flour that was in the canister. Crap! I asked if we has anything else. She said that we had whole wheat flour in the pantry. I was kind of wary of it but I didn’t really have much choice. At that point it was 3 parts white flour to 1 part whole wheat. I went to pull out some milk to alternate with the flour, and wouldn’t you know it, we didn’t have milk. We had soy milk though, so I used that.
Well hell, this recipe was already kind of off track so I decided to just go all out. There was a mango on the counter, so I diced it and folded it into the batter. In the cupboard I saw a bottle of honey, so I squeezed out a good bit into the batter and blended it in. By that point the batter was kind of runny so I added more of the whole wheat flour. The flour type ratio was half/half by then.
So, in summary, I made: whole wheat honey mango banana cake. Crazy!
This is the result:
You can kind of see some chunks of mango peeking out. It looked great, and it tasted awesome too. I thought I would mind the whole wheat flavour. It was definitely there, but it wasn’t overbearing. My mom brought some to work and her coworkers gave full approval. The cake went pretty quickly.
I’m pretty proud of my work, you know? I’ve got some basic skill. Maybe with some free time I’ll go develop my skills with a 101 at George Brown.
What do you think? Are you good at baking? Got tips?
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