Banana-Almond-Semolina Cake with Apples aka Sheera Cake
 
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These mini brown butter banana semolina cakes are perfect for entertaining and for festivals. They taste like a popular Indian dessert called Sheera, but in cake form!
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Recipe type: Cake
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 50 mini
Ingredients
  • 2 ripe bananas, mashed
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp ghee/brown butter
  • 1½ cup very fine semolina/sooji/cream of wheat
  • ⅓ cup almond meal/flour
  • ⅓ cup all purpose flour
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • ⅓ tsp green cardamom powder
  • pinch salt
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • pinch of saffron
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 2 large eggs, at room temperature
  • ⅓ cup ghee or brown butter, melted
  • Nuts for garnishing
Instructions
  1. In a large pan, add olive and oil and keep on medium heat. Add the mashed bananas and keep sauteeing and caramalizing it for about 10 minutes. Turn off the heat and take out the bananas in a mixing bowl.
  2. In the same pan which has some oil, add the semolina and on medium low heat, saute and toast it for about 3 minutes or until lightly toasted. Turn off the heat and add this to the banana mixture.
  3. Add the almond meal, all purpose flour, white sugar, cardamom powder, salt, baking powder and mix it well.
  4. In a separate bowl, add the whole milk, eggs, ghee and mix is well and add it the semolina mixture and mix it well until everything is incorporated.
  5. Spray some non stick spray or brush some butter in the mini muffin pans or financier molds.
  6. Now pour in mini muffin pans, financier molds, madeliene pans, garnish with anything you want and bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
  7. Once cooled, unmold it and dust some powdered sugar.
Recipe by Food Fashion Party at https://www.foodfashionparty.com/2017/09/30/brown-butter-caramalized-banana-almond-semolina-mini-cake-with-aka-sheera-cake/