Chocolate, Banana and Liquorice Mint Tea Cake
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Serves: 12
 
Ingredients
  • 250g butter
  • 100g date nectar (or you could use honey or more caster sugar)
  • 100g caster sugar
  • 300g self raising flour
  • 50g cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 2 over ripe bananas (medium sized)
  • the contents of Liquorice and Mint 3 Yogi Tea bags
  • 4 large eggs
  • *For the ganache*
  • 100g milk chocolate
  • 50g dark chocolate
  • 75g soft plain liquorice
  • 200ml double cream
  • *decoration*
  • whatever you have - I used chocolate stars and cut up some liquorice.
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF
  2. Grease and line a 23cm/9 inch loose bottomed tin.
  3. Cream the butter with the sugar and date nectar (I used a freestanding mixer) and beat for about 5 minutes until smooth.
  4. Add the bananas, broken into chunks and mix well until well combined, then add the tea.
  5. The batter will curdle a bit here but that is ok just keep going!
  6. Next add the eggs and beat or a few minutes with a spoonful of the flour
  7. Then add the remaining flour, coca powder and bicarbonate of soda and mix in until incorporated to make a lovely batter
  8. Pour the batter into your prepared tin and bake for approx 55 minutes
  9. When the cake is done, it should have risen and a cake tester will come out clean (I use a knife!)
  10. Leave to cool completely before removing the cake.
  11. *to make the ganache*
  12. Melt the chocolate and liquorice slowly in a bowl over hot water - just before it is fully melted, remove form the heat and using hand held blender, blitz the mixture to break up the liquorice
  13. Put back on the heat and continue melting, but now add the cream and keep stirring to make a lovely glossy thick sauce.
  14. Allow to cool for about 5 minutes
  15. Then cover the top of your cold cake and use a cake spatula knife to spread it one the top smoothly and decorate if you wish.
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2016/06/chocolate-banana-liquorice-mint-tea-cake.html