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Brown butter chocolate chip banana cake

Moist and delicious cake with the yumminess of banana and nuttiness of browned butter !
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Ingredients
  

  • 150 grams or 2/3 cups unsalted butter
  • 150 grams or 3/4 cup granulated or castor sugar
  • 2 eggs cold or warm doesn't matter here
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 medium bananas around 2/3 cup when mashed
  • 160 grams or 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • pinch of salt
  • 1/4 to 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 180 C / 350 F. Butter and flour a 8 inch square pan . Line the bottom with parchment (optional).
  • In a saucepan , melt the butter and continue heating until it turns brown and there is a nutty smell (be sure not to burn it !)
  • Take off heat and strain into your mixing bowl. Let cool.
  • Meanwhile , mash your bananas and keep aside.
  • In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, soda and salt well,
  • Take a tablespoon of the flour mixture and dust your chocolate chips with it.
  • Into the browned butter, whisk in the sugar. It won't all dissolve.
  • Whisk the eggs , one by one , until smooth.
  • Whisk in the vanilla and mashed bananas
  • Add the flour mixture and chocolate chips.
  • Whisk until just combined.
  • Pour batter into prepared pan
  • Bake at 180 C / 350 F until well browned on top , a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean . The cake should spring back when touched.
  • Cool in pan for 5 mins. Unmould and cool completely on a wire rack.

Notes

This cake stays well in an airtight container for 3-4 days.
You can also bake this in a 8 inch round or a tube / ring pan .
The dusting of the chocolate chips is so that they don't settle to the bottom of the cake.
The sweetness of your cake depends on the ripeness of your bananas. Its best to use overripe bananas with brown spots