Banana Walnut Cake
Shiokman Recipes recipe - Western
- Prep time
- 14 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 125 g unsalted butter (melted and cooled)
- 40 g cooking oil
- 600 g very ripe bananas (mashed)
- 4 medium sized eggs (55 g each, beaten)
- 100 g fine sugar
- 3 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 330 g self raising flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 100 g walnuts (roughly chopped)
- Walnuts (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Melt butter over low heat and set aside to cool down.
- 2
Peel ripe bananas and mash coarsely.
- 3
Whisk eggs, sugar and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl. Mix in cooled melted butter and cooking oil. Add this mixture to the mashed bananas and mix well.
- 4
Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl.
- 5
Add wet mixture to flour mixture and stir until ingredients are fully incorporated. Mix in the chopped walnuts.
- 6
Line two loaf pans with parchment paper and scoop batter into the pans.
- 7
Top with whole and chopped walnuts (optional).
- 8
Bake in a preheated oven at 175 C for about 20 minutes on middle rack.
- 9
Reduce temperature to 160 C and bake for another 20 to 30 minutes on lower rack.
- 10
If you find top of cake turning too brown, cover the top with parchment paper. Test cake with a skewer. It is fully baked when skewer comes out clean.
- 11
Remove cake from pan by lifting the parchment paper and leave to cool on rack before cutting.