So what do you do a lazy Sunday afternoon in Mysore...bake a chocolate banana cake...
A few days ago I had breakfast with Pam and Jake. I asked Jake if he can bake me the cake he did last weekend. He said, "no problem" but Pam said, "why don't you make it yourself. we'll give you the base recipe and you can throw in what ever you want it in." Pam planted the seed in my head and in the next days that followed I kept thinking about my cake. I use to bake a gazellion years ago but I no longer have any of my recipes.
This morning Jake gave me his base recipe and suggested that I throw this and that. He said he never bakes the same thing because he never measures and throws in whatever he feels like. He knows what the consistency would be and when he got there, he would just pop it in the oven. I'm a familiar with the consistency so I thought...what the heck...
This afternoon, I gathered all the ingredients. I decided to throw in chocolate, coconut powder, flax seeds and cinnamon. I had to throw in the cinnamon because after going to 3 different stores I found it. It's easy to get cinnamon sticks here but apparently they don't use it in powder form. I was a little worried about how is would come out since I haven't bake in a long time and my kitchen equipment is a little primitive. I told Shoba, my landlady that if it came out well, I would bring her a few pieces. If you don't get any then you know what happened. So let me tell you how it came out...tumba chana gee-de!!!
Tomorrow...coconut oatmeal raisin cookies....