Crepe cake with bananas and chocolate
Description
The baking is quick and easy to make. I cooked the thin pancakes in a 16 cm pan, and I assembled the little cake in a tin of the same 16 cm diameter. If your pancakes turn out larger, you can easily trim them to size with a knife. It is best to eat the finished little cake as soon as possible. You can serve it with tea or coffee.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for making pancakes.
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Step 2
Pour kefir into a large bowl, add vegetable oil, salt, sugar, and baking soda. Whisk everything together and wait until the baking soda reacts with the kefir.
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Step 3
Sift the flour.
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Step 4
Mix these ingredients with a whisk, breaking up every lump of flour completely — you end up with a sticky, thick mixture.
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Step 5
Pour boiling water over it.
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Step 6
Mix everything with a whisk until the batter is smooth and uniform. The batter should not be runny, but not overly thick either—about the consistency of low-fat sour cream.
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Step 7
Grease the frying pan with vegetable oil and cook the pancakes on both sides until golden.
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Step 8
The finished pancakes turn out nice and thick, with open holes all the way through — they look very appetizing.
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Step 9
Prepare all the ingredients for making cream cheese frosting and chocolate glaze. Also prepare the bananas for the fruit layer.
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Step 10
Pour 120 ml heavy cream into a roomy bowl and whip with a mixer until creamy.
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Step 11
Add cream cheese and confectioners’ sugar to the whipped cream.
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Step 12
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Step 13
Line the bottom of a springform pan (mine is 16 cm in diameter) with baking parchment and start assembling the pancake cake: place the first pancake, then spread 2–3 tablespoons of cream cheese on top in an even layer.
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Step 14
Place thin slices of peeled banana in a layer on top of the cream layer. Keep layering in turn: a crepe, a layer of cream, and a layer of bananas. The top layer of the little cake will be just a crepe. For the cake I used seven thick crepes 16 cm in diameter. Put the tin with the assembled cake in the refrigerator for at least four hours, or preferably overnight.
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Step 15
After refrigeration, turn out the almost-ready cake from the pan onto a horizontal surface.
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Step 16
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Step 17
In a double boiler, melt the chocolate with the cream, stirring vigorously with a spatula—you should get a smooth, homogeneous chocolate mixture.
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Step 18
Cover the entire cake (top and sides) with a layer of chocolate glaze and refrigerate for one hour to cool.
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Step 19
Decorate the finished crepe cake however you like. I generously sprinkled the top with grated dark chocolate and arranged mandarin segments on top. It’s best not to decorate with banana slices—they brown very quickly.
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Step 20
Done. Serve at the table.