Sourdough Chocolate Muffin? Cake? Bread?

v.1 is very successful, it's not so sweet and the texure is soft and fluffy. I'm suprised that the baking soda worked so well with the sourdough. But v.2 has not enough sweetness, next time I might use more jelly or sugar.



v.1
Ingredients:
(6 muffins)

- 2 egg yolks
- 60g butter
- 100g sugar(70+20+10)
- 1/3cup sourdough
- 70g AP flour
- 1/2 tsp b.s.
- 1/3 tsp salt

- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tsp (instant coffee+cinnamon+rum)

- 4 pieces of Valrhona (Jivara)

Cream the butter and flour first, 1 tbsp at a time. Beat the egg yolks with sugar and then add it into the batter, keep beating until well-combined. Finally, add the sourdough, water and coffee mixure into batter then beating... Stir in chocolate chunk and bake in the 175 degree C oven for 40 minutes.



v.2
Ingredients:
(1 mini loaf)

- 2 egg yolks
- 70g jelly
- 20g dark brown sugar
- 1/3 cup sourdough
- 70g whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/2 tsp b.s
- 1/3 tsp salt

- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tsp (instant coffee+cinnamon+rum)

- orange peel and Michel Cluizel Mangaro

Beat the egg yolks and sugar until it gets pale. In the seperate bow, cream the sourdough, jelly and coffee-water mixure. Pour the sourdough into the egg mixure and beat until well-combined. Shift the flour in the batter and gently fold them until well-combined. Stir in chocolate chunk and bake in the 175 degree C oven for 40 minutes.


(2 recipes in above varied from the following recipe)

Rie's Sourdough Chocolate Cake

2/3 cup butter softened

1 2/3 cups sugar

3 eggs

1 cup sourdough

- combine above wet ingredients

1 3/4 cup flour

2/3 cup cocoa powder (preferably dutch processed)

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

- combine all dry ingredients, mix into wet ingredients alternating with water, stir in vanilla

3/4 cup water

1 tsp vanilla

Pour into a greased Bunt or Angel Food cake pan

Bake @ 350 F for 45 mins

Sourdough Banana Bread

I like homemade banana bread. I remember that the first banana bread I ate which made by my English tutor is rich in banana flavor and gummy texture. Maybe it would regard as a flawed banana bread(cake?) because it is not delicate, but I just like the way it is. Without a little bit gummy texture, it is not the "homemade" banana bread I love to eat.

I've use the recipe with lots percentage of eggs and the ratio of sugar, butter,flour is 1:1:2. I cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy first, then beat the egg whites until soft peaks, and then shift the flour without b.p. and b.s.. The texture is light and delicate, it was delicious but it's not the bread I miss. Thus, I start to find some other recipes...




I want my banana bread like bread more than a cake. It can't be too sweet because I don't use to eat something sweet for my breakfast. I found two recipes interesting - Banana Cake or Bread and Sourdough Banana Bread from David Lebovitz and Don and Myrtle Holm's Sourdough Cookbook. Actually, these two are similar in someway. I recreated the recipe by adapting part of each recipe and change a little because I only have 1 banana left. Honestly, I was worried that I might get horrible result, because I used too many ingredients, I was greedy that I added lots of flavor in it. Moreover, I was afraid that the sourdough might attributes over tangy and sour flavor that ruins everything.

Fortunately, they match with each other, and I love the taste very much and It's not sour at all! I definitely will keep this recipe and bake it whenever I have overripe banana and obsolete sourdough.



- 1/4 cup banana
- 1/4 cup sourdough starter
- 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry
- 13 ml oil
- 38g sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1 egg

- instant coffee
- rum

- chocolate chunk
- walnut
- orange peel







1. Mix coffee and rum, and mix orange peel, chocolate and walnut in a seperate bowl.
2.Cream together the oil and sugar, add egg, and beat until the mixure gets pale and foamy.
3.Stir in bananas, sourdough starter, and coffee mixure.
4.Sift flour, measure again with salt, baking powder, and soda. Shift flour mixture to the first mixture, then add nuts and fruits mixure, gently fold them into the batter until well-combined.
5.Pour into mini loaf pan. Bake in 180 degree C oven for 45~50 minites or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool before slicing.