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Gawri Manecuta
Saturday, 12 July 2014 / Published in Latest posts, Nothing to Cook Blog

The ultimate banana cake

 

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Ingredients

 

3 eggs beaten

4 bananas fully ripe, overripe is best

1 cup cold butter or margarine

3 cups flour

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt,

1/2 cup white sugar

1cup brown sugar (packed down)

1 tsp salt

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

3 tbls chopped walnuts

1/2 cup mixed peel

zest of 1 orange

 

Method – the three step method makes this banana cake as easy as apple pie.

Save those overripe bananas from the green-cart by whipping up a healthy snack for the little ones or the older ones.

 

Step 1 – Flour Mixture

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1. Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and ginger into a bowl.

2. Cut or grate the butter or margarine into the dry ingredients.

3. Mix with a pastry blender until the flour resembles fine breadcrumbs.

 

Step 2 – Sugar Mixture

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1. Now mix the brown sugar and white sugar, add the peel, zest and walnuts.

2. Add this sugar mixture into the flour mixture.

 

Step 3 – Egg Mixture

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1. Beat the eggs in a separate bowl.

2. In the same bowl mash the bananas into a puree.

3. Then, mix the flour and egg mixture together.

4. Add the flour mixture into the banana mixture and mix them evenly.

5. Pour the mixture into a baking pan lined with parchment paper. Or dust a Bundt pan with butter and flour like below and pour the mixture in.

 

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Bake it in the oven at 180 degrees for 1 hour 30′

Or in the toaster oven for about 50’

 

Do let me know how your version turns out.

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