Chocolate-Date Cake Topped with Roasted Banana Ice Cream

On this ice cream cake, both parts—the ice cream (roasted banana) and the cake (chocolate-date)—retain their identities. For the reason that cake is frozen fully earlier than a layer of correct-churned ice cream is spread on high and all of the pan is sent motivate into the freezer, you are going to find two discrete layers. It is a job that comprises a tolerance for delayed gratification you in all likelihood below no circumstances knew you had.

But within the tip it capability that the cake is complemented, in predicament of overpowered, by the ice cream—and vice versa. The fudgy, truffle-treasure texture of the cake stands up to the ice cream but turns true into a runt softer; the richness from the dates and the chocolate is extra pronounced with the barely-bitter banana model as a foil. In its save of icecreamcake, you find ice cream-cake—joint yet separate.

Cake recipe adapted from Mast Brothers Chocolate: A Family Cookbook(Minute, Brown and Firm, 2013). Ice cream from Max Falkowitz at Serious Eats. —Sarah Jampel

Instructions

1. For the cake:
2. Preheat the oven to 375° F. Line a 9- by 13-go pan with parchment paper, making clear the parchment hangs over the sides. You are going to must use it as handles later in philosophize to take hang of away the cake from the pan.
3. Purchase away the pits from the dates and discard them. In a medium saucepan, combine water and baking soda and ship to a boil. Add the dates to the water, take hang of far from warmth, and let soak for Half-hour.
4. As the dates soak (and likewise you construct are seeking to save that next step as the dates soak, as they must nonetheless nonetheless be warmth when they’re mandatory next), use an electrical mixer fitted with a fade attachment to cream the butter and the sugar till fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the egg and mix till fully integrated. Add the salt and mix. Add the flour 1/2 cup at a time, mixing till correct integrated.
5. Drain the dates and add them to the aggregate. Add the chocolate and mix till evenly dispensed. This could occasionally per chance additionally confide in melt into the warmth dates—that is correct. Transfer the batter (that would perhaps per chance additionally be very thick) to the cake pan and spread it with a rubber spatula.
6. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes, till the middle is nonetheless gooey and wobbly but the perimeters are predicament. Let the cake cool fully within the pan, then wrap it completely with plastic wrap and stick it within the freezer till it’s far fully frozen.

1. For the banana ice cream, the chocolate drizzle, and the cake assembly:
2. When the cake is within the freezer, decrease the oven temperature to 350° F. In a baking dish, toss the bananas with raw sugar. Bake till the bananas are very tender and the sugar is bubbling dramatically all around them.
3. Transfer the bananas to a blender and add the salt, lemon juice, cream, and milk. Blend on high till completely combined.
4. Take a seat again the aggregate till this could per chance additionally very effectively be very chilly, at least 3 hours. I recommend chilling the aggregate as your cake freezes.
5. When the cake is frozen, churn the ice cream essentially based fully mostly on the producer’s instructions. When the ice cream has been churned, spread it onto the frozen cake. Wrap all of the pan very, completely in plastic wrap and send it motivate into the freezer for at least 3 to 4 hours or, preferably, overnight.
6. While you’re willing to employ the cake, construct the magic shell. Add the chocolate to a microwave-staunch container with the coconut oil. Melt in 30-2nd intervals till liquid. Drizzle over the cake and let harden.
7. Purchase away all of the cake from the pan using the parchment handles. Let it sit at room temperature for five to 10 minutes, till it’s far soft enough that you just are going to be ready to slice it with a knife. Reduction with forks.