Marbled Banana Brownie Wannabe

The original title for this post was going to be "marbled peanut butter and chocolate banana brownie wannabe," but since that is very long-winded, let's settle for the short version.

A week or two ago, my cousin L bought a bunch of bananas. As usual, they sat in the fruit basket getting riper and riper, until there was nothing left to do with them but to bake them. I am still not in the mood for banana bread (don't ask me why), so I thought I'd make another banana brownie. Then L saw the Facebook post from someone in the building saying they had leftover peanut butter brownie, and so she asked me if I could make it peanut butter this time.

To make things more difficult for myself, I thought I'd tackle a marbled peanut butter chocolate one. I simply made half of a batch of chocolate brownie batter (using half of the recipe in the link above), and half of a batch of an experimental peanut butter variant, which simply used 100 g of creamy peanut butter instead of the chocolate. Then I dolloped it progressively, alternating batters, into my loaf pan, and swirled it all with a knife.

Although the texture was amazingly soft and great to eat, it made it very difficult to cut the loaf and get decent slices that didn't collapse and break every which way. I'm still debating whether it's worth trying to fix that and possibly sacrifice the texture. To be determined in the future, I guess.

Semi-Marbled Cake

 

For a quick extracurricular celebration meeting, I whipped up this quick cake. Instead of making it plain vanilla, however, I wanted to attempt a marbling with a small mix of cake with some berry jam.

Unfortunately, I had made too much of the berry mix, so the marbling wasn't so successful. It did, however, sink a bit during the baking due to its greater density, which left an interesting pattern inside the cake. The marbling itself isn't so visible on the surface, as the cake darkened a lot after baking.

Mini Marbled Cheesecakes

I had some leftover cheesecake ingredients, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to experiment a bit =D

(All pictures were edited slightly due to bad lighting and photography conditions)

First, I made them mini sized~ I used two sizes of cupcake tins (silicone ones) to make these. 24 mini cheesecakes were made, and 6 small ones (2 of the mini ones didn't fit on the tray...) They all have an almond cookie crust as a base.

First up, we have the Green tea-Vanilla cheesecake!

I made a quarter-batch of vanilla flavored cheesecake, and a quarter-batch in which I mixed in some Matcha (green tea powder). I was really scared the green tea would be drowned by either the vanilla, or the cheesecake flavor. Then I was scared it would be too strong. It turned out fine, though. I attempted marbling cheesecake as well this time, and some of them are failures in that prospect. This one is topped with some sliced almonds.

Overall, the green tea experiment was pretty much a success!

Then, I made Rose-Raspberry cheesecake.

Same as the Green tea-Vanilla, I made quarter batches each of rose flavored cheesecake, and cheesecake in which I mixed raspberry jam. I topped this one with a dollop of raspberry jam, for additional color. When I made the first ones, this cheesecake looked a lot like smoothies =D

Here's more pictures:

These are the medium-sized cheesecakes.