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You’ll never get rid of a mole mound that fast again: This Mole Cake is so delicious and cute, nobody can resist it! The combination of chocolate, cream, and bananas is just heavenly.
We Germans are not known to have a lot of humor but I think this cake actually is funny … and delicious! Mole Cake is a rather new recipe in Germany but I can’t tell who invented it. Roughly 25 years ago, it became available as a box cake and soon after it was a favorite at birthday parties.
You’ll never get rid of a mole mound this fast ever again!
The wonderful combination of a nice moist chocolate cake with cream and bananas is a culinary match made in heaven. The base is the baked chocolate cake but you have to dig in and carve it out a bit. Then you cover the bottom with bananas. On top of that, you create a mound with whipped cream. This is then covered with the cake crumbles from the carving. For a little extra, you can make a cute mole that sits on top of it all. Almost too pretty to eat but too good to resist!
INGREDIENTS
For the Cake
- 125 g Butter soft
- 120 g Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 150 g Flour
- 3 tbsp Cocoa Powder unsweetened
- 3 tsp Baking Powder
- 50 g Chocolate Sprinkles
- 5 Tbsp Milk
- 1 pinch Salt
For the Filling
- 4 Bananas
- 550 g Whipping Cream
- 3 packages Stabilizer
- 3 tsp Vanilla Sugar or a bit of Vanilla Extract
- 50 g Chocolate Sprinkles
For the Mole
- 50 g Marzipan
- some Pink Food Color
- some Brown Food Color
INSTRUCTIONS
Baking the Cake
- Preheat the oven to 350°F / 180°C and grease a 9 inch baking pan with butter or oil.
- Mix the 125 g Butter with the sugar 120 g Sugar until the sugar is almost dissolved.
- Mix in 3 Eggs, one at a time. Then slowly add the 5 Tbsp Milk.
- In a different bowl, mix the 150 g Flour,3 tbsp Cocoa Powder,3 tsp Baking Powder, and 1 pinch Salt.
- Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture and stir in with the 50 g Chocolate Sprinkles.
- Bake for about 25 – 30 minutes, then let cool completely.
Filling the Cake
- Once the cake as completely cooled, take a spoon and carve it out, leaving about 1 cm / ½ inch of a rim and also enough cake on the bottom. Keep the carved out cake for later!
- Cut the 4 Bananas lengthwise in halves and cover the bottom of the cake with them. You might need only 3 bananas.
- In a large bowl, whipp the 550 g Whipping Cream, add the 3 packages Stabilizer once it starts to get firm, also the 3 tsp Vanilla Sugar.
- Once the whipping cream has a consistency that can be compared to skyr, use a spatular to mix in the 50 g Chocolate Sprinkles.
- Cover the bananas with the cream and create a mound. Use the carved-out cake crumbles to cover the mound.
Create a Mole
- Use about ⅔ of the 50 g Marzipan for the body. Dye it with some Brown Food Color.
- Dye the remaining marzipan with some Pink Food Color for the snout and the hands. Follow the video in the blog post or do your own creation.
NOTES
- Vanilla Sugar
- Marzipan
- Whipping Cream Stabilizer: 50 g confectioners sugar + 1 g cornstarch. Use 1 tsp on 250 ml / 1 cup.
