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This Recipe Is Said To Be 90% Similar To The Hiap Joo Banana Cake

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For many Singaporeans who make regular day trips to Johor Bahru, eating, shopping and getting a massage are usually on top of their list of things to do.

And one of the haunts that foodies like to visit is Hiap Joo Bakery & Biscuit Factory for their banana cakes. Lines can usually be spotted here over the weekend as customers wait for a freshly-baked batch of banana cake — it’s usually warm when you first get it in your hands.

Hence, when the borders were closed earlier this year, thanks to Covid-19, some have found themselves unable to do without this tasty treat, even setting up group buys to get their hands on this banana cake.

While that’s an option, it currently includes waiting time, so we took to the internet instead and found recipes, like this one, that claimed similarities to the speckled banana cakes that Hiap Joo is known for.

Here are some tips that we got from an interview the bakery did with ChannelNewsAsia:

  • Don’t mash your banana too finely as the bread needs to be slightly chunky and the pulp makes the cake lighter and fluffier
  • Use berangan bananas that have a slightly dry and starchy texture.
  • And here’s our take on the banana cake, barring using a wood-fired oven for the actual baking like the original.

Hiap Joo banana cake recipe

Ingredients

For a 9 x 13 inch cake pan

  • 3 eggs
  • 100g caster sugar
  • 210g mashed banana
  • 150g cake flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 100ml vegetable oil

Steps

1. Add eggs into bowls and beat with whisk till foamy.

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Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

2. Add sugar and mix well

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Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

3. Mash banana in a separate bowl. Don’t mash too finely or coarsely.

Hiap Joo Banana Cake

Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

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Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

4. Add mashed banana to egg and sugar mixture, and mix well.

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Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

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Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

5. Sift in cake flour, baking soda and baking powder in two batches, and mix well.

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Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

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Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

6. Add oil to mixture and stir well with spatula.

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hiap joo bakery

Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

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Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

7. Pour into cake tin and bake in pre-heated oven at 160 degrees Celcius for 40 mins or till you get a golden brown top. You can cook it longer if you prefer a caramel brown colour.

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Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

Hiap Joo Banana Cake

Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

The verdict: It’s an easy to make recipe that my tester says taste pretty similar to the original

Hiap Joo Banana Cake

Image source: AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

Speckled, yes. Fluffy, yes. Basically, the resulting banana cake does tick all the boxes, save for maybe the wood-fired taste that we can’t replicate.

Though my pictured cake doesn’t stand at the same height as the ones from Hiap Joo, this can be easily resolved by using a 8 x 8 inch cake tin instead, or doubling the recipe.

My testers who tried it said that it was a cake that they would definitely reach out for again, and for the ones who have tried the real deal, they have said it’s a pretty decent duplicate in terms of taste and texture.

And after trying the recipe with other types of bananas, I’ll say that while you could stick to the same berangan bananas that Hiap Joo uses but if it’s too much hassle, the normal spotted brown bananas you find in your neighbourhood would be probably a sufficient substitute.

All in all, it’s a pretty good alternative to Hiap Joo banana cake while the borders still remain closed and you get to have it fresh out of the oven in the comfort of your own home.

This article was first published on AsiaOne and republished on theAsianparent with permission.

Lead image from Instagram / johorfoodie and AsiaOne / Seow Kai Lun

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