Niken's Chocolate Banana Cake with Cheese Vanilla Crumble

Remember my recipe for basic banana cake? As it's just the "basic" one, the cake is actually can be developed to another toothsome cake! Combining the savory taste of cheese and bittersweet from chocolate would never go wrong, would it? Plus, this recipe will make double, so I used 20x30 cm and 20x20 cm pan. Perfect recipe for a family gathering!

Niken's Basic Banana Cake with Honey Lemon Butter

Living in my grandfather turns me into a creative person in processing banana. We harvest banana three times a year, so there were periods when we ate banana every day but still had overstock of them. So to not wasted them, I learned to cook various recipe of banana and now I can proudly say that this recipe is the most successful basic banana cake I ever created after some trial and errors for three years.

Banana Bollen

My friend gave me four fingers of uncommon reddish skinned banana from her homewtown, Ciamis, West Java. We usually called it as pisang Kidang, or Kidang Banana. The flavor is also unique that you can feel the higher content of starch but less sweet than the usual banana. As it is not really tasteful to be eaten just as it is, my friend asked me to process it to another form of food.