I've been looking at the recipe book "
Mocchiri chiffon cakes, sakkuri cookies, dosshiri cakes (bouncy chiffon cakes, crunchy/crispy cookies, dense cakes)" by Shiho Nakashima. Her recipes use vegetable oil and soy milk instead of butter and cream. I was wondering if they taste good enough. It was such a good timing that my favourite blog
Ichinichi Ichizen was writing about Kuromame Gâteau au Chocolat (in Japanese only) - after reading the blog, I had to bake the cakes.
Banana cake and
Kuromame Gâteau au Chocolat were both moist and tasty, I especially liked the Gâteau au Chocolat, it was better than the
chocolate cake I had the other day. I agreed with C that cherries might also work well with this Gâteau au Chocolat, BTW, at the end of the recipe it mentions that I need some extra sliced banana for the decoration. I had some banana left, but I ate it before I read the last part of the recipe!