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Banana sponge cake

Recently we have been to some friends for Varalakshmi Vratham and ended up with tons of bananas (paraphrasing hit someone like a ton of bricks). My husband new what to do with the first batch reaching old age. Banana bread. But wife is bored of classic banana bread. Still I thought  a new recipe might make me do it. foodnetwork's 1 stick of butter put me off. Besides its 2 cups. I find 1 cup recipes ideal to make. And somehow when I was thinking of no fat, banana and sponge circuits in my head got short and I wanted a 'banana sponge cake'. It seems more like an English thing with most recipes in grams. The net doesn't serve up a simple sponge cake easily. the least it expects of you is to separate the eggs and whites. I remember it was easy the last time. Finally I chose sponge cakes.
4 eggs
1/4 tsp salt
6 tbsp sugar
1 cup all purpose flour
2 ripe bananas
Bake at 325F for 40min in loaf pan
should have added some baking powder.



Flavored whipped cream:
Today at Starbucks, I asked the barista making a mocha crumble, what was the thing on top. It looked like whipped cream but wasn't white.
Chocolate whipped cream

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