Gula Melaka Banana Cake
In Singapore, we call banana cake instead of bread. It’s basically the same thing. Gula Melaka is also known as palm sugar (or coconut palm sugar to be more exact), it has a very strong aroma of its own unique smell and taste differently like normal sugar. If you couldn’t find gula melaka, you could substitute it with brown sugar. Although I have to say that, they are two different things. Brown sugar is white sugar with molasses while gula melaka taste differently depending on its region and species used but is not highly processed unlike brown sugar.
This is a to-die-for banana cake. It’s so moist due to banana and the strong unique taste, you can never find this anywhere unless you make it yourself. I always like to make 3 loafs at one goal because everybody loves it.
- 75 grams of unsalted butter, soften
- 100 grams of fine white sugar
- 80 grams of gula melaka (palm sugar)
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 90 ml of buttermilk
- 200 grams of mashed very ripe bananas
- 140 grams of plain flour
- ¾ tsp. of baking soda
- ¼ tsp. of salt
- Lined loaf pan with parchment paper. (7.9" x 4.3")
- Preheat oven to 200C or 180C fan-forced.
- Shave gula melaka using a food processor or knife.
- Puree or mash ripe banana.
- In a measuring cup, combine milk, vanilla extract and mashed banana.
- In a bowl, whisk pain flour, salt and baking soda.
- In your mixing bowl, cream soften butter and both sugars together for about 3 minutes until light and fluffy.
- Add in eggs, one at a time.
- Turn your mixer down to low, gradually add in half of the dry ingredients.
- Then, drizzle in all your wet ingredients.
- Lastly, gradually add in the rest of the dry ingredients.
- Bake it in the oven for about 45 minutes.
- Let it cool completely before transferring to a platter.
- Best eaten within 2 days.
- If you couldn't find gula melaka, you could substitute it with brown sugar.
7 Comments
Shon
HI it sounds great can’t wait to try it.
Is there a substitute for buttermilk? Can I use regular milk instead?
Zong Han Chua
Regular milk with vinegar/lemon. 🙂 To make buttermilk, 1 tbsp of vinegar/lemon for every 250 ml of milk.
Javier Lim
May I ask whether below can be subsitutable:
– 140 grams of plain flour with same amount of Top Flour or Cake Flour
– ¾ tsp. of baking soda with same amount of baking powder?
Thanks so much for sharing!
Zong Han Chua
Plain flour can be sub with top or cake flour.
But Baking soda and Baking Powder are two different things.
Betty Tang
what is the difference between Baking soda and Baking Powder?
Betty Tang
how much vinegar or lemon juice to make 90 ml of buttermilk?
TYRA
It’s so moist due to banana and the strong unique taste, you can never find this anywhere unless you make it yourself.