Black Forest Cheesecake Cake | Birthday Cake Recipe for Husband

Black Forest Cheesecake Cake Recipe

Black Forest Cheesecake cake sound so fancy right. This what happens when my husband is gifted with a wife who is a food blogger ;-). Food blogging has made his expectations of me go soaring high, each year I bake two fancy cakes one for our anniversary and one for his birthday, so I get a little carried away planning what cake I need to bake for these occasions in our life. Last year I baked for him a Tiramisu Cake , this year I promise, it was a last minute affair I decided on this cake only 2 days before and got the ingredients and baked it all in one day. In fact I did the frosting of the cake only the next day morning that was his birthday. So for compensation he had to do a little cake modelling for me :P. I love taking risks in the kitchen, I did not have a springfoam pan and yet I pulled off doing a cheesecake recipe. All thanks to God for He always answers my prayer ;0). We both love black forest cake and off late have been die hard fans of cheesecake, so combined both and thought of this and voila I saw a recipe for this so went ahead without any second thoughts. We love dessert cakes too and this recipe is such a keeper, a really rich one so save and plan it for your special occasions. Lets move on to the recipe and its a long post alert... 

Banana Date Cake/ Loaf ~ baking for beginners

Last night I tried out the Banana Date cake and to be honest it came out really well. My husband was surprised and happy at how it turned out, he gave it a 5* :-). Its a good recipe to try out if you are a beginner at baking. 

If you are a beginner in baking it a must do recipe. You could also use a loaf tin to bake it, the choice is yours.

Simple, easy and with ingredients available in anyone's pantry. So what are you waiting for? 

Recipe Source ~ Nags (modified using dates)

Ingredients needed :

1-2 ripe yellow banana (I used 2 since the bananas were quite small)

2 eggs

1/4 cup white powdered sugar

1/2 cup unsalted butter

1 cup white flour/ maida 

1 tsp vanilla essence

Couple of dates (you can use any nuts or raisins, depending on what you like)

Method

• Keep the butter out in room temperature and mash the bananas in a separate bowl, just before you start beating the ingredients. 
• Beat the sugar and butter such that the sugar entirely dissolves in the butter. 
• Add the 2 eggs and whisk till the two combine.
• Add the banana mash and beat in low setting until all the lumps disappear
• Now add the vanilla essence and the white flour, combine using a wooden spoon, do not whisk at this point and later add the dates/ any nut of your choice.
• Later set it in a greased cake tin and put it on a preheated oven for 180 degree/ fan grill for 40-45 mins until a skewer inserted in center comes clean.
• Once done take the cake pan and place it on a cooling rack for 10 mins with the pan. Later flip the cake and let it cool down to room temperature. 
• Slice into pieces and enjoy the cake.

Notes 

- Powder the sugar and then measure,  sugar can be adjusted based on the sweetness of the banana

- Always sieve the flour before adding to the whisked mixture, while sieving add a pinch of salt

- While setting the mixture in a cake tin, tap it a couple of times so that there is no air pockets in the cake