I’ve had a glut of bananas at home this season. Everyone was snacking on peaches and berries and the poor bananas were neglected. I have enough banana recipes on the blog so I wasn’t intending on creating another one but this was so good. Who knew just the addition of crunchy maltesers in this Banana Malteser Cake would make such a delicious difference.

The other reason why I made the Banana Malteser Cake was to experiment making beautiful buttercream designs using silicone molds. If you follow me on Instagram, you may have noticed that I’ve tried this method on cupcakes and they turned out amazing. It was time to try out a design on a cake. all I did was spread buttercream in the mold, smoothen the surface with an offset spatuala, then freeze the mold with the buttercream in it. Once set, all you do is you unmold and place it on the cake. in case you’re wondering, it doesn’t alter the taste or texture and retains the shape really well. You are of course, free to pipe buttercream as an alternative or decorate as you like.

I used this mold for the design on the top.

If you like banana cakes you’ll love this Easy Banana Cake with Tahini Frosting

Banana Malteser Cake
Makes a 7 inch round cake

Banana Cake
114 g (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup (165g) brown sugar
2 Eggs
2 large (or 3 medium about 125 ml) mashed over ripe bananas
2 cups (250 g) self-raising flour
1/2 cup (120ml/g) sour cream
1/2 cup ...