1teaspoonvanilla extractor ½ teaspoon vanilla powder
a pinch of salt
for the chocolate icing
125gramsdark chocolate
½cupoil or butter
some icing sugar or powdered sugar as required(optional)
Instructions
making chocolate banana carrot cake
grease and prepare a 6-7 inches diameter round cake pan.
preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius or 356 degrees fahrenheit.
seive the flour with the salt, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda.
puree the bananas and carrot together in a blender.
mix the liquid ingredients together i.e the banana-carrot puree, water and oil.
add demerara sugar to this liquid mixture and mix well.
now add the liquid mixture to the dry ingredients.
add the vanilla extract or vanilla powder.
mix very well and uniformly.
pour into a greased pan.
bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees celsius or or 356 degrees fahrenheit, for 35-40 minutes or until done.
when the cake is baking we can prepare the icing and keep it ready.
making the chocolate icing
chop the chocolate.
in a pan on a double boiler melt the chocolate with the oil.
just let the chocolate melt. don't overcook.
stir and mix well,
let this mixture cool.
you can also microwave both the chocolate and oil on medium powder till the chocolate begins to melt.
when you remove from the microwave, the chocolate would be still melting.
just mix the icing well and if you see pieces of chocolate, then again microwave for some seconds or a minute.
if you want you can add some icing sugar to the frosting mixture. add the sugar when you are melting the chocolate.
icing the cake
when the cake cool down, then remove it from the pan.
spread the chocolate icing directly with a palette knife on the top of the cake.
you can also pour the icing into a piped bag and do the icing on the cake.
refrigerating the chocolate banana carrot cake along with the icing, makes the icing settle on the cake and forms a thick layer.
Notes
few tips for chocolate banana carrot cake recipe: 1. instead of oil you can use butter. 2. instead of water you can use milk - dairy milk or cashew, almond or soy milk. 3. the mixing of the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients have to be done properly. if not done properly, then the cake does is not even in texture and does not rise well.