Very tasty, much success, so nutty! Presumably you are now thinking why such a nonsensical title for such a casual looking birthday cake. Still the peculiar title dissociates the like from itself. Well, truth lies behind the nuts and creams. As the birthday of someone i hold dear is coming up, i was requested to make a change – notwithstanding the ritual and to the fact that i had to prepare two cakes this time. Change was challenging yet powerful to make it special, so special to name it with something you can attribute a meaning to – which in this case could be the team you are working with for quite a long time. So i prepared the cake instead of browsing the shops to get a better one. I am not sure how it is going to be enough for the entire office but i assume there will be some backup plan about that. But the cake needs a name..so we named it after the team he’s been working. Cool, done!

The idea of putting banana was a mere improvisation. Since it is a widely acknowledged taste and choice for cakes like this, i devised an idea to merge them all together with my ever-preferred milk pudding. You can embellish inside or outside with your craziest imaginations of course, that’s why i didn’t include the decoration in the recipe.

There will be some cake crumble leftovers so you can use it to give some color to the top or freeze it for your future attempts, all up to you.

Should you want intense cacao taste and explode your taste buds, you can of course increase the amount of cacao. The amount i used is giving a mild cacao taste, but also depends on the quality of cacao used.

Whisk neatly sugar and the egg until it gets a stretchy texture – to test it, i suggest dipping the tips of your index finger and thumb and if it feels stretchy then it’s all good.

More bubbles will also give you the hint that your cake will be rising nicely, as we lock the bubbles inside the mixture while adding the rest of ingredients.

We are adding the rest of the ingredients and mixing them until they get blended. You can put more cacao as you wish in this step, but putting extra yogurt or milk would be necessary not to make the dough too thick to bake.

Place it in the pre- heated oven (180 degree) for 35 minutes. Be careful not to open the oven first 15 to 20 minutes, or else the cake would fizzle out – no pun intended.

After the given time, let it rest in the oven for 5 minutes then take it out on a clean plate and let it cool for a while.

Proceed to the filling! The tasty milk pudding..

This part is really easy, i would say. We mix all the ingredients except butter. Butter will be last just to make the pudding bit more shiny but until then keep stirring and stirring..

When the mix starts to bubble then it means it is high time to put the butter in! Having put the butter, we mix 5 minutes more then we take it off the heat and put it somewhere to cool.

I am certain by now everyone knows how to do a neat-cut for cakes. Again for those who don’t know i have a 50 cm long thread which will help me to make a perfect cut but there is a little nuance for cutting the cake, if the cake is too hot then probably the cake will break down as you try to separate it but if the cake is too cold then you would need a sharp knife not a thread. So i tried to cut it while it was still warm inside.

I scooped it out to give some room for filling. As i said above, there will be leftovers from the cake crumbles but you can either use all of it for topping or keep it in the freezer for later.

Banana goes good with the milk pudding i used with this recipe. But if you want something more fresh then strawberry and kiwi would be a nice choice or anything else according to your desire.

Filling will make the cake soft a little when it’s kept in the fridge so make sure you put the filling neatly not just pour over the bananas..

Preparing the embellishments..we don’t quite need the blender but to make the cake crumbles more crumbly then you can of course get help from it.

At last.. after 2 hours of hardcore attempt to create something nice looking.. I can assure you it tastes as nice as it looks and it is perfectly enough for a small birthday party. If you liked this recipe, do leave a like and comment, after all it is really nice to know to be able to reach as many people as i can and make their days happier. Bon appetite!

Ingredients:

3 eggs

200 gr sugar

170 ml oil

2 tablespoon cacao powder

1/2 tablespoon vanilla

1 tablespoon baking powder

For the filling:

480 gr milk

11 gr butter

30 gr flour