No-Bake Sour Cream Banana Chocolate Cake

No-bake sour cream dessert cake with cookies and bananas! If you want a delicious, fuss-free cake with dough and cream, then this is the recipe! You don’t have to bake anything; everything is prepared quickly, since the sour cream with gelatin hardens almost instantly. Tasty and beautiful!
cook time: 1h 30 min
Liam Carson
No-Bake Sour Cream Banana Chocolate Cake

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

270
Calories
11g
Fat
36g
Carbs
5g
Protein

Ingredients (8 portions)

Basic:

Sugar 150 g
Bananas 3 pc
Vanillin 0.2 g
Chocolate 30 g
Sour cream 400 g
Gelatin 25 g
Cookie 340 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
To make a delicious banana cake without baking, you will need cookies — a sweet cracker is best, but any shortbread, oatmeal, square cookies with the flavor of baked milk, sugar will do, the main thing is that they are airy and fragile. Measure the required amount of products according to the list.

Step 2

Step 2
Dissolve gelatin according to package instructions. I dissolved it in a cup of boiling water. For 25 g of instant gelatin, take 120 ml of boiling water. If you do not have instant gelatin, read the instructions on the package on how to dilute it correctly.

Step 3

Step 3
While the gelatin is soaked in water, break the cookies into small pieces.

Step 4

Step 4
Wash the bananas, dry with paper towels, remove the peel and cut into small pieces. Immediately prepare a springform round cake pan (18-20 cm in diameter). Cover it with cling film so that the cream does not leak.

Step 5

Step 5
Combine sour cream (20-30% fat) with sugar (or a sweetener according to the instructions), add vanillin on the tip of a knife or vanilla sugar (about 1 tbsp). Be careful with the amount of vanillin, because if you overdo it, it will give bitterness. Beat the sour cream with a mixer for about 1 minute until the sugar crystals dissolve. Sour cream can be replaced with mascarpone cheese. Then the taste of the dessert will resemble tiramisu.

Step 6

Step 6
Pour the dissolved gelatin into the sour cream mixture in a thin stream, without stopping the whipping process.

Step 7

Step 7
Beat the sour cream and gelatin with a mixer for about another minute, it doesn’t take long, as the mass will harden quickly.

Step 8

Step 8
Place pieces of cookies and bananas into the sour cream, stir quickly with a spatula or spoon.

Step 9

Step 9
Immediately pour mixture into prepared cake pan.

Step 10

Step 10
Smooth the surface with a silicone spatula or spoon.

Step 11

Step 11
Cover the pan with a flat plate or cover with cling film and place the cake in the refrigerator to set.

Step 12

Step 12
The cake will harden well within an hour in the refrigerator, but you can leave it overnight to help it set even better.

Step 13

Step 13
Remove the frozen cake from the refrigerator and carefully release it from the springform pan.

Step 14

Step 14
Place the cake on a flat plate; it holds its shape perfectly.

Step 15

Step 15
Remove the cling film from the cake.

Step 16

Step 16
For decoration, take high-quality chocolate with a high percentage of cocoa; the taste of the delicacy will depend on this. Grate it on a fine grater. You can decorate the dessert in another way. For example, sprinkle it on top with walnuts lightly toasted in a dry frying pan and then chopped with a knife or in a blender. If desired, you can sprinkle with cocoa powder, coconut flakes, cookie crumbs, or confectionery sprinkles.

Step 17

Step 17
The final touch is to sprinkle the cake made from cookies, sour cream and bananas with grated chocolate and serve with tea or coffee.

Step 18

Step 18
This is what a cross-section of a cake without baking looks like. The cookies become soft and the cake slices perfectly without losing its shape.

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