Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Banana nut cake recipe


You will need:

  • 3 or 4 ripe bananas, smashed
  • ½ cup melted butter ( 1 stick)
  • 1 cup sugar (can easily reduce to 3/4 cup)
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1½ cup of bread flour (can substitute with All purpose flour)
  • 2 tbsp chopped nuts (silvered alomonds, cashews)
  • ¼ cup raisins
Step 1:

Preheat the oven:

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Step 2:

Making cake dough:

With a wooden spoon, mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour last and mix. Mix in chopped nuts and raisins.

Pour mixture into a buttered pan. Bake for 45 mins. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Viji,

Nice recipe though ,will try it and let u know how is tastes...Cheers...byeeee

Unknown said...

Mm sure.. will be expecting your comments.. All the best..

Dahlia said...

hey the cake turned out very well.. good recipe...

Unknown said...

Dahlia akka. Nice to hear that from you. For healthy recipe next time try the banana bread!!!

Unknown said...

Dear vijitha another recipe gonna give a try tis evening...

Unknown said...

Its an awesome recipe...keep going!!

-Purni

Unknown said...

Thanks Purni.. Hope u tried it...

preethi said...

Hi Viji,
Came to ur blog thru SIO...tried ur banana nut cake turned out very well...even my one yr old liked it very much.Cheers!