Thursday 22 October 2009

Bananering the pineapple cake

The ringbearer loves foam bananas. Don't know why-horrible fake tasting things that they are - but he does. As we disagree on this point I decided not to put too much effort into the mighty foam-banana-cake experiment I agreed to and utilised one of the easiest (and stickiest) recipes I know. So here it is: The pineapple upside down foam banana cake.

Step 1. Batter making. This is dead easy, no folding, bain-maries or even a mixer. Just add eggs, sugar, flour and pineapple juice in a bowl and stir.
Step 2. Melt butter in chosen dish on the hob, then add sugar. Squish the sugar into the butter (This is great fun and looks horrible)
Step 3. Place the pineapple in the dish. Also add pointless banana items in a specifically zoned area.
Step 4. Pour over the batter. Put in oven and bake.
Step 5. The only tricky bit. Cool the cake a little bit and attempt to flop cake out of dish onto plate. If this isn't done when there is residual oven warmth then the cake will NEVER come out. Seriously you could use the stuff to seal a reactant leak at Sellafield. At this point I spot a problem. Look at the picture below, have you spotted it?
Yes. The cake would flop over the edges of the plate. Now normally this would come with the considerable benefits that I could legitimately eat the fallen off parts. But I wasn't in the mood - there might be foam banana in parts of it! After much clanking and near misses I discovered a rectangular platter in the cupboard, that still didn't quite fit and had curved edge issues, but would mean less spillage. And tadaa!

The cake is naturally best served warm with cream. The ringbearer was delighted and to prove it gave me some very eloquent reviews. (I think he's been taking my remarks about his monosyllabic reviews to heart). He declared it to be 'A pineapple cake as interpreted in Las Vegas.' If this is a good thing I don't know. He also said 'It had a heightened sense of banana which formed a hyper real mix with the pineapple.'. I will grudgingly admit that it wasn't that bad and was very probably better than the softmint yoghurt cake. But lascked the diverting scientific questions about softmint integrity. Foam banana integrity was incidentally very good-which isn't suprising they taste of hardened wood anyway.

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