Banana Cake

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Melissa Clark, The Bread Is for Breast; This Is Dessert. An indulgent cake with roasted bananas and toasted coconut. New York Times, Jan 24, 2018 (in her column "A Good Appetite" of the weekly Food section).

Quote:

(a) text: "THERE IS BANANA BREAD. And there is banana cake. And though the two share many sweet traits, they are not at all the same thing.  Banana bread, baked in a loaf pan * * * may have a thin glaze or sugar topping, it never has frosting.

"With towering layer covered in billowing frosting, banana cakes qualify as dessert, not breakfast * * * This version is most definitely a cake: a fluffy, festooned pile of shaggy coconut and caramelized, buttery banana. With their rich, round tropical flavors, coconut and banana are beautifully complementary.

"Roasting the bananas is a clever trick I picked up from cooks on the internet. It intensifies their fruitiness and gives then toasted, caramelized notes. Roasting also helps along bananas that are not quite ripe enough to be turned into a cake -- the ones with peels that are mostly yellow rather than speckled brown. While riper is always better for banana cake (and banana bread for that matter),  roasting gives you a slightly wider window of banana usability.

(b) recipe: "Heat oven to 350 degrees. * * * Place unpeeled bananas on a rimmed baking sheet and roast until blacked and juices have begun to seep out, about 30 minutes. Set aside to cool, then peel

"While bananas are roasting, spreading coconut out on another rimmed baking sheet and toast in the same oven until golden brown, 5 to 10 minutes, stirring once.

Note:
(a) banana bread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_bread
(often a quick bread but sometimes a raised bread [also known as yeast bread])
(b) bread pan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_pan
(also called a loaf pan)

(c) toast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast
("Bread can also be toasted * * * in an open [or closed] oven * * * Toaster ovens are special small appliances made for toasting bread or for heating small amounts of other foods")

A roaster oven has a door, uses electricity (not microwave) to generate heat and convection 对流 (via a small fan blowing) to make heat evenly distributed inside the oven.

(d) Ask The Editor: Bake, Toast, Roast, Grill, and Broil. Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary, undated.
www.learnersdictionary.com/qa/bake-toast-roast-grill-and-broil
(i) The difference between toast and roast is the food being cooked: the former for starch (including cake and pizza) while the latter, meat.
(ii) grilling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grilling
("In the United States, when the heat source for grilling comes from above, grilling is called broiling. * * * Direct heat grilling can expose food to temperatures often in excess of 260 °C (500 °F). Grilled meat acquires a distinctive roast aroma and flavor from a chemical process called the Maillard reaction. The Maillard reaction only occurs when foods reach temperatures in excess of 155 °C (310 °F)" )
(A) British and American Terms. Oxforddictionaries.com, undated
https://en.oxforddictionaries.co ... -and-american-terms
(British English: grill (verb) <--> American English: broil)
(B) Oxford   grill (n; etymology): "British  device on a cooker that radiates heat downwards for cooking food  <place under a hot grill>"
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/grill

The same device is broiler in North America (US and Canada), but "under [not in] the broiler" is used. See broiler (n; examples)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/broiler
(C) Collins   grill (v): "British  to cook (meat, fish, etc) by direct heat, as under a grill or over a hot fire, or (of meat, fish, etc) to be cooked in this way . Usual US and Canadian word: broil"
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/grill

Celebrating 200 Years of Great Books. HarperCollins Publishers, undated
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