Banana sponge cake from Cape Verde

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Banana sponge cake or 'Bolo de banana' is a typical dessert from Cape Verde. It is a sponge cake with a layer of banabas and other layer of caramel, it will sure surprise you.

Ingredients for the caramel:

-  200 grams white sugar.
-  200 ml water.

Ingredients for the sponge cake (mold17x25 cm):

-  6 bananas (1 Kg).
-  200 grams sugar.
-  250 grams wheat flour.
-  200 grams butter.
-  4 eggs.
-  100 ml  whole milk.
-  chemichal yeast.
-  Salt.
-  1 dessert spoon cinnamon.

Method:

1- Pour some milk in a bowl, add egg yolks and beat well.

2- Add butter, sugar and mix well, you can use a food processor to help you.

3- Add flour, yeast, salt and mix well.

4- Cut bananas into slices , place then in the base of the cake mold where we are going to cook the cake.

Take the spare bananas (I had 3 bananas left), crush then with the help of a fork and make a banana paste that you are going to add to the mixture, stir well.

5- Whisk the egg's whites until they go stiff.

6- Add the whites to the mixture and stir with encircle movements.

7- Add ground cinnamon over the banana slices , then prepare the caramel, to do this, put the water and sugar in a casserole, put on a medium heat and cook until the water turns into a slightly brown colour, this is the moment when you turn the heat off, the remaining heat will make the caramel will turn into a deeper brown colour. Before the caramel gets dry, pour it into the cake mold, over the bananas.

8- Pour the dough over the bananas and caramel.

9- Preheat oven at 180 º C for 5 minutes then, cook the cake for 30 or 40 minutes until it gets gold ,you know it is cooked when you poke the cake with a knife and you take it out clean.

10- Before unmold, let it get cool, you should turn the cake upside down , because the bananas should be presented upwards. As you can see in the pictures.

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