By Nicolas Boussin - Maxime Guérin

Recipe Banana Cake

To make this dish

Ingredient list

  • Banana Cake batter
    656 g ripe bananas
    16 g vanilla extract with seeds
    360 g sugar
    504 g vergeoise blond beet sugar
    163 g Lescure Unsalted 250g butter Roll 82% fat
    328 g eggs
    240 g full-fat fromage blanc 20% MF
    502 g plain flour (T55, approximately 11% protein)
    18 g baking powder
    11 g bicarbonate de soude
    2 g netmug
    2800 g total weight
  • Rum and lime soaking syrup
    300 g dark rum (optional)
    100 g lime juice
    400 g total weight
  • Hot mirror glaze
    150 g hot neutral glaze
    150 g water
    300 g total weight
  • Banana Cake finishing touches
    SQ Lescure Unsalted 500g butter Roll 82% fat
    SQ plain flour (T55, approximately 11% protein)
    3 bananas
    360 g total weight

The recipe, step by step

  1. 01

    Banana Cake batter

    Using the paddle attachment, combine the room-temperature bananas with the vanilla extract then add the two types of sugar.

    Incorporate the softened butter.

    When the mixture is homogenous, add the eggs and fromage blanc and combine again.

    Finally, add the sifted-together dry ingredients. 

  2. 02

    Rum and lime soaking syrup

    Combine the ingredients.

  3. 03

    Hot mirror glaze

    Combine the ingredients and bring to the boil.

  4. 04

    Banana Cake finishing touches

    Butter the Matfer Exoglass moulds (345079) with softened butter.

    Flour the pans lightly and place in the refrigerator.

    Place 5 banana slices (1 cm thick) in the bottom of each mould then pipe out 280 g of batter over top.

    Place the moulds on a rack (for even colouring) in a convection oven preheated to 190°C, then bake at 160°C (damper closed) for approximately 35 minutes.

    Remove from the oven and unmould immediately.

    Brush the tops of the cakes with 35 g of imbibing liquid, then let cool.

    Glaze the tops of the cakes. 

    > For even, symmetrical development, place the moulds perpendicularly to the fan and turn the rack around halfway through.