Hi everyone, we are still under quarantine and before dinner, after lunch time
around four o'clock, a craving starts that craving starts from your stomach
and takes over your body. It cannot be stopped by something healthy, something
light or something green. It can be stopped something with something brown
like chocolate or a cake or something puffy and warms you up. So for that
moment, I have a cake recipe, it takes 15 minutes to prepare and cook and doesn't
need an oven. So if you're ready, we can start.
The ingredients for the cake is very simple; flour, something sweet like sugar
or honey and egg, milk and if you have baking powder that's all the
ingredients that we need and the rest we can add and make it fancier. First to
make the cake, we start with mixing the sugar and the egg. One egg, four
tablespoons of sugar why do we start with beating the egg with the sugar is
to melt the sugar first of all and second we whiten the egg. Now for example,
I do this, it's quite yellow but after a minute later I continue beating it and
it's going to be whiter it helps the cake to mature and it's like the
building blocks of the cake, the egg is very essential in that terms and
sometimes it smells eggs and that smells some people don't like it. so this takes
it away.
You can add honey, molasses if you like maple syrup but the type of sugar
doesn't differ from the calories that you take it doesn't make you less fat
but it's a healthier version. You'll see this is not a very sweet cake. Then
instead of butter, I'm going to use hazelnut oil, Turkey is a heaven for
hazelnuts if you want to use butter you should first melt it on the stovetop and
you shouldn't add it directly when it is heated, add the milk inside of it and
then add it to your mixture. For the milk, I'm going to put 140 milliliters and
it is around a little higher than the half of the milk. I'm giving the measurement
in this glass but you can use any kind of glass, so the measures will be
dependent on each other, it won't be a matter so I also add the milk cause now
for example, I'm going to give the measurement of the flour and I'm going
to use this cup inside this milky but outside is not so I'm dipping it in.
Almost the whole glass like until here, it has to be around 120 grams ;190 to be
exact. I add baking soda and vanilla in. Turkey we
have vanilla around you can have vanilla extract, 1 pack of each for the
vanilla extract it's going to be probably if you have it you know how
much is needed for it because it depends also on the brands. Then I mix it. Few
days ago I was talking to a friend, this guy is trying to make cake at a home.
The main difference of why you should first at the liquid and then the flour
and powders especially the flour is if you add the flour to a little liquid
then the gluten gets awaken, when the gluten wakes up basically then instead
of a like a spongy thing you have a like bready and something that
goes long way, glue like elastic, yeah. So the cake mixture is ready and you can taste.
It i's not really sweet, I don't like cakes very sweet so taste
it, if it's low for you you can add a bit more sweetness, but for me, I like to
balance, this is the basic mixture. I can add this to a pan and cook it but I want
to make it a little more exciting. So, to make it more exciting, I have one banana here.
I'm going to slice it inside, these bananas are rather small because they're
Turkish bananas and I believe in these times what Turkish people try to do with
bananas is an example for the world. Before Turkey was a big Ottoman Empire
with a lot of incredible amount of lands but then the Ottoman Empire left its
citizens with a lot of debts and all of the lands around had their own freedoms
and etc. So, Ottoman Empire shrank into Turkey, Anatolia is our main land but
unfortunately, we weren't able to even produce needs, something so small
something so simple but even though Anatolia is the center, it means 'ana' is
like mother, it was the mother of agriculture and many of the stuff we
were importing it all around the world. Then some of the people who love their
nations started and agricultural movements. Turkey's climate is not
suitable to grow tea but after 30 years of effort we were able to produce tea.
Same thing with these small bananas now we produce them in Turkey. When I was
small, it was still really expensive and it was hard to produce and now we can do
it in on our lands and for every country we can understand from the quarantine,
some of the things have become short because everything is important from
everywhere else but for the countries to be self standing, for the countries to
produce and continue producing real stuff is very important, for our mental
health and for our bodily health and banana is a proof that everything can
be possible when you don't have any money or something. After this quarantine,
the world can go to two ways; one is like we become prisoners in the homes and big
guys start to control us through machines
or we can save our lands we can save our seeds
and produce, eat what we produce, share what we produce and be happy about that.
And we understand that we don't need cupboards and cupboards of clothes, cupboards and
cupboards of stuff but instead you know what I mean. So, I think I better continue.
I'm mixing the bananas the cake became a banana cake, we also have here some
hazelnuts, a handful. That's all I am left with. I'm gonna put these back
use the milk bottle which used to be a whiskey bottle and dip them a bit and
add it to the cake. It's a cake with hazelnuts now. Now, we can cook. I have a
ceramic nonstick pan. I didn't have a glass lids that suits exactly, so I'm
going to use a bigger one for to show it to you actually but if you have a lid
that's suits the pan is much better. So first I'm heating up the pan, it's a
ceramic pan. I al s o put a spoonful of oil for it to not stick. First the oil and is
going to oily and then after it gets really warm, it becomes a water like the
consistency, now it's hard for it to cover everywhere but after it's heated
then it's going to be really easy. I'm going to use a bit of paper towel as
well to cover this sides to be sure that the sides are also oiled okay. Bring it
to smaller one. I add half of the mixture like this and close it. Turn the flame to the
smallest one, add a bit of like a half tablespoon of cocoa and mix this really
well. Double color, I'm going to make it a double color, a bit of milk to cover up
the extra flour of the cocoa. I also add a cocoa mixture.. How are you feeling?
I want it now.. One final thing is I added the mixture not very precisely, to the sides.
It is not art, it is not necessary, I'm making like a marble cake. It won't
be a marble cake but.. The heat is at its lowest, like this pan is this big so I
want it to be a little bigger to its lowest and wait for 12 minutes.
It's exactly 12 minutes right now and I would like to show it. Normally, I
shouldn't be opening the lid but I want to show you this is very important that.
Now this part is still creamy let it rest for 3-4 minutes more, it's going to
suck its juices and become a cake. Why do we do this because if we continue on
heating up the cake what it will do is it will burn the bottom but for now if it's
rest for three or four minutes it's going to be totally good. So you can say
Refika we have oven we don't want to get under the stress of weather the
bottom is burned or something, you can always always put this mixture it's a
very nice mixture it's bananas and hazelnuts, you can always put it into the
oven and bake. I gave the measurements and glasses and teaspoons but the cups
is written like there's an arrow at the bottom and if you open it you'll also
receive the exact recipe.
Okay, after three more minutes, as you can see it's very good. I'm going to use a
lid. Oooo!! bottom is as you can see very crispy and nice. As I said like if we
did wait for three more minutes now we have a problem that the sides like this,
we wouldn't have any of those. It's come on time but if it's soaks all the juices
back it's always always tastier actually. Okay..
Now..
One slice like this. Fast and delicious cake ready to eat.
More than the clouds, there are the bananas and they're so tasty.
It's heaven on heaven, heaven on earth both. Can you focus on this?
Can you see how spongy it is? The chocolatey and the banana flavor. Now the
perfect one.
I hope you liked our video, our few small discoveries this is like a
pan-cake, the idea for this cake came from ok pancake pan, cake on the pan there
could be a cake, they made it in such a way it is more like an egg dish or something,
why can't we make a proper cake and here is the proper one. Hope you liked the
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