Moist Banana cake

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I love banana cake or banana bread, especially if it is moist. Actually I do not like recipes that have mashed bananas in them. So, I avoided tasting banana cake for many years, but when I did I simply fell in love with it πŸ™‚

Makes: 10 large pieces

Preparation time: 10 mins

Baking time: 40-50 mins

Dry Ingredients:

Whole wheat flour – 1.5 cups

Semolina/suji – Β½ cup

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Salt – Β½ tsp

Brown/ordinary sugar – 1 cup

Nuts – 2 tbsp (cranberry, walnuts, almonds, finely chopped, optional)

Flax seed powder – 2 tbsp (optional)

Wet Ingredients:

Yogurt/buttermilk – Β½ cup

Milk – ΒΌ cup

Oil/butter – ΒΌ cup

Ripe bananas – 3 (mashed)

Vanilla extract – 1 tsp

 

IMG_4266IMG_4269Procedure:

  1. Combine all the dry ingredients and wet ingredients in two separate bowls.
  2. Slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and keep folding the batter gently.
  3. Grease a cake tin with oil/butter and also spray little flour in it so that the cake doesn’t stick.
  4. Pour the cake batter into the tin and tap it gently.
  5. Bake it in a pre-heated oven at 190Β°C for about 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
  6. Remove from oven, let it cool and transfer to a serving plate.

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