Checking Out The Cake

The dessert angel hopped over with a tray of enticing smells! She brought a banana cake with gula melaka butterscotch. The bananas smelt heavenly. The recipe has been gleaned from 2 different magazines- Bon Appétit and our new Epicure. The dessert angel liked neither recipe on its own and decided to fuse them together to form something different and distinctly unique.

I was a little suspicious of the cake because it looked like a kueh-kueh, mousse, agar-agar type of thingy. I no like kueh-kuehs and the sorts. When it was time to trot out dessert, I asked, "Ummm....scoop? Or knife?" She affirmed that I should use a knife. So I cut it like a cake. Wieeee! It was a proper banana cake! Yummy.

The texture was dense, so I sliced up smaller portions to spread around. I like the layer of bananas! The woman had obviously cut the sugar. In spite of the butterscotch, it wasn't overly sweet. The gula melaka added this oriental flavor, giving a slight twist to the usual banana cakes I'm familiar with. It was neither crumbly nor overly moist.

It's a very good cake. Luckily, we've more than half left to tuck away in the fridge. We're saving it for dessert at some point during the week! *hearts