CHOCO BANANA CAKE

Valentine's Day is not part of our culture, there is no harm respecting other's culture. It is okay if this Day is trending at the time. It is good to love. To all Valentines....when you fall in love...do not forget the wisdom....  remember... "The course of true love never did run smooth." If one love someone keeping this in mind, they can accept anything that comes their way and confidently say, "I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old."

This is a subject I can write a thesis on. The practical mind at home jokingly calls his wife a relationship expert. How a practical self built a nest with an impractical love bird is an entirely different story....there definitely has some common personality traits. Its a movie material I can say. 

I believe Love is lifelong celebration...even if there is pain of circumstantial thorns. "Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow." As per Wiki, it's a quote from J M Barrie's Little Minister.

Do we really need a 14th February to celebrate love? Isn't it true that in Love, every moment is special? It can be made special even over a humble cup of tea or coffee. It is in trusting each other, in sharing and caring. Its not being "with" each other but being "in" each other, neither should we be the cause of pain for our love but share it and face it together. Being silly in love is permissible / advisable. Calculations and love cannot really walk together. 

I sincerely hope this generation Valentines are intelligent beings, have the freedom to choose their lives. They do not need to wait for each other, they hold each other tight, hug tighter and walk along together enjoying every bit of the journey called Life.

In all these emotional bouts, I may forget the recipe of the cake I prepared for the Valentines. Each time I post a recipe on baked goods I seek your mercy, given I am poor at baking. I hope when Valentines are together and love is in the air, they hardly bother about how perfect is the cake. Thinking of that I feel relaxed.

INGREDIENTS :

Dark Chocolate Bar : 1 

All Purpose Flour : 1 coffee mug

Baking Soda : 1/ 4 tsp

Baking Powder : 1 tsp

Sugar : 6 tbsp [I used Brown Sugar]

Banana : 3 [small]

Plain Yogurt : 4-5 tbsp

Vanilla Extract : 1tsp

METHOD :

Preheat oven with the temperature set at 160*. 

Sieve together flour, baking powder and soda.

Blend together the sugar, banana, plain yogurt, oil. until fluffy. Add to the flour mix, beat well.

Melt the chocolate as in the picture. Add the vanilla essence [not in picture], the melted chocolate. Mix well.

Grease the cake tin with oil and then place a butter paper. Pour the cake batter until half of the cake tin.

Mine is a convection mode microwave oven, I placed the low height wired stool inside, atop it the batter filled cake tin.

I baked the cake at 160*C for 30 minutes. Once done, cool the cake before taking out on a plate.

Enjoy the cake with your favourite beverage!