Showing posts with label Foodtv.com Cooking Club Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foodtv.com Cooking Club Challenge. Show all posts

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Food Network Cooking Club Challenge (May)

I had fun working on this challenge because I knew right off the bat I didn't like the name, White Chocolate Banana Loaf. It led me to believe it was a breakfast bread and I have a problem with chocolate in breakfast breads. I think at that point they go from breakfast to dessert. I bought a decorative pan to make little individual cakes. With that in mind, my presentation lends itself better to be a dessert than a breakfast food.
You'll have to go to foodtv.com, Cooking Club Challenge May, for the recipe since there is no sense in me rewriting it. I made a few slight changes. Chocolate and cinnamon aren't a good combination to my palette. I reduced to 1/4 tsp Cinnamon and added 1/4 tsp of Cardamom. The recipe is a little dry which was a common complaint among this month's bakers. To remedy, add 1 1/2 Bananas instead of 1 banana.
For the presentation, I sliced 1 cake and left the other whole. I heated 1/2 Cup 1/2 & 1/2 and turned off the heat then added about 1/3 Cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips for a quick chocolate sauce. I diced A Single Strawberry and snipped Fresh Mint. Once done setting up the plate, using a potato peeler, I shaved White Chocolate over the entire presentation. I got to eat this sample and it was really good.