To have a zing to your banana cake, you can add some nuts according to your taste buds and I prefer to add walnut to my cake. It creates a different texture. Put the nuts into the cake and also deco the cake with nuts on top. This time, I also deco the cake with some dried apricots!
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| I baked this into 9 inch baking pan - notes, if you put in baking soda, you may need larger container or divide the cake batter into two for safety. |
Banana Cake Recipe
Ingredients
1 1/2 cup mashed banana
2 tbs lemon juice
375g self raising flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
170g butter
200g castor sugar
200g brown sugar
3 large eggs
2 tbs vanilla essence
354ml buttermilk
1 cup Walnuts (or any nuts will do)
Methods
- Preheat the oven at 180˚C (you can go as lower as 150˚C)
- In a bowl shift together flour, salt and baking soda. Set aside.
- In another bowl mix mashed banana with lemon juice and set aside.
- In mixer bowl, blend together butter, castor and brown sugar until pale and fluffy.
- Add in the vanilla essence and the eggs one at a time. Mix the batter well.
- Alternately add in flour and buttermilk. Mix it together and finally add the chopped walnuts (make sure that you bake the nuts a little bit before adding into the batter).
- Bake the batter into 2 x 8 inch spring form baking pan for 30-45 minutes.
