Hi Bold Bakers.
For many years online, I was known as the mug queen.
I created so many mug recipes, almost 100 sweet and savory.
My mug recipe videos online have tens of millions of views.
You guys absolutely love them and are always asking for more.
But I thought what could be bigger and bolder than a mug cake?
And then it struck me.
Cake Bowls.
To kick off this brand new series, the first flavor we're going to be making
is a banana cake bowl.
This is just as easy, in the microwave, in minutes.
Bigger and Bolder.
Just like the name states, we are going to need a bowl for this recipe.
So an average soup bowl, cereal bowl,
anything you have in your house is totally fine.
Just make sure that it's microwave safe.
Now, here I have a medium banana and I'm going to add this into my bowl.
And then with a fork, I'm just going to mash it up really fine.
So the beauty of these microwave recipes and the reason that we have
so many views on
these videos is because you mix, you cook and you eat all out of the one bowl.
It just makes life so much easier.
OK, lovely. Nice and finely mashed.
Into here we're going to add in some dark brown sugar.
Now, brown sugar just makes banana bread so yummy
and it kind of gives it caramel tones, which just is absolutely delicious.
Next, a little bit of flavorless oil and by flavorless oil
I mean canola, vegetable oil, sunflower oil, something like that.
Just not olive oil.
And then a little splash of milk, an egg, and
of course, my favorite flavoring vanilla extract.
Add a dash of that in there just to bring out all the lovely flavors
of the banana.
And then with your fork that you mashed with, just mix these all together.
I have to say, even though I'm a professional baker,
I am all about recipes that you can make by hand
using a few ingredients really simply and cook them just like that.
So this cake bowl is my idea of perfection.
So those are your wet ingredients.
Now for your dry ingredients here
I have a little bit of plain flour, all purpose flour.
And into this we're going to add in our raising agent,
which for this recipe is a little bit of baking powder
and of course, always a little smidge of salt.
You have to have salt in your baking
to bring out the flavor and it just enhances everything.
And it works really well with the vanilla and the banana.
Give that a little mixy mix.
And then it is as simple as adding your dry straight into your wet.
And then with your same fork, we're not creating
any more washing up for ourselves than we need to,
we're going to mix it together until your flour is combined
and your batter is smooth.
So this recipe makes a very generous amount of cake.
So if you want to share it with somebody else
you can totally do that, however, if you want to have it all for yourself,
then you do you. There is no judgment here.
So now all we have to do is pop our cake into the microwave.
I cooked mine for around 2 minutes to 2 minutes and 20 seconds.
The timing is based on my microwave, which is 1200 watts.
Check the wattage of your microwave because your cook time may
vary you might need a little bit more, you might need a little bit less.
My suggestion is maybe check it around the minute and a half mark
and see how it's doing.
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So there you go.
That was for me, a little less than 2 minutes and 20 seconds and it is perfect.
You can tell when it's done,
you see the way it's kind of firm underneath my finger there?
There's no wet cake left.
It's nice and bubbly.
This is perfect.
So next is the really fun part is where we get to be creative.
You can customize your bowl and add anything you want on top.
Some of my favorite toppings that I love to go with bananas are whipped
cream, toasted pecans and caramel sauce.
These recipes are supposed to be fun, so just make them big
and bold and beautiful.
Oh my gosh.
I mean, freshly made cake in minutes from scratch.
So soft, absolutely delicious.
With all these delicious toppings on it.
What could be better?
Actually, the only thing could be better is that now there's more of it to enjoy.
I want to hear from you guys, so let me know in the comments below
what other cake bowls you'd like to see me make,
because I know we are just getting started here.