Home
My Blog
Lose Weight Losing Weight
Weight Loss Plans
Lose Belly Fat
Weight Loss Tips
Weight Loss: Kids
Add Exercise!
Seasonal Valentine's Recipes
Pancake Day
Healthy Meals Dinner Recipes
Low Fat
HEALTHY SALADS
Healthy Dinners
Healthy Breakfasts
Easy Meal Ideas
Healthy Lunches
Healthy Desserts
Plan Healthy Meals
Healthy Eating Plans
Healthy Recipes RECIPE INDEX
Healthy Soups
Healthy Cakes
Special Occasions
Healthy Kids Healthy Lunch Boxes
Healthy Sandwiches
Healthy Kids' Drinks
Feeding Kids
Healthy Choices Healthy Eating Tips
Fast Food Facts
Save Money
Super Foods
Menopause Diet
Anti-Cancer Diet
Healthy Heart
Fruit and Veg Eat more fruit & veg
Seasonal Fruit & Veg
Go Organic
Reviews Cook Book Reviews
Resources
Subscribe Eat Healthy! ezine
FREE 7-day course
Site Info About the Site
Share this Site
Site Map
What's New
Contact Me
Search the Site Search This Site

Subscribe to Eat Healthy!
and get 50 Healthy Eating Tips free with your first issue!

Enter your E-mail Address

Enter your First Name (optional)

Then

Don't worry -- your e-mail address is totally secure.
I promise to use it only to send you Eat Healthy!.

Banana Cake Recipe

Beautifully moist, quick to make and full of fruity flavour, this is a great banana cake recipe.




You can’t get much more banana-y than this fruit-crammed recipe, one to remember when you find you have a whole bunch of bananas in the bowl which have mysteriously ripened overnight and are crying out ‘Eat me!’ Grated citrus rinds add a bit of zest, but don’t worry if you don’t have an orange or lemon to hand, they aren’t crucial.

This moist cake keeps well for 2-3 days in an airtight container. You can make it in a loaf tin for slicing, or drop spoonfuls of the mixture into muffin cases to make individual cakes. It's also a very popular cake for lunch boxes.

Healthy Banana Cake Recipe

Ingredients

75g (1/3 cup) softened butter
110g (1/2 cup) caster (superfine granulated) sugar
1 large beaten egg
225g (2 cups) plain (all-purpose) flour
2 level tsp baking powder
grated rind of 1 orange and 1 lemon (optional)
4 ripe bananas
50g (1/2 cup) chopped walnuts

Method

  • Grease and base-line a loaf tin measuring 8.5 by 19cm (1 lb capacity), or set 12 paper muffin cases into a muffin tin. Heat the oven to 350F/180C/gas 4.
  • Put butter, caster sugar and egg into a bowl. Sift in flour and baking powder. Using an electric mixer, whisk until thoroughly combined. Add the grated lemon and orange rind if using.
  • Slice the bananas into another bowl, and mash to a pulp. Add to the flour mixture, along with the walnuts and whisk again thoroughly.
  • Spoon the mixture into the tin or cases and bake until risen and browned, and springs back when pressed with a finger. A loaf takes about 50 minutes. Muffins take 15-20 mins.
  • Leave cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning on to a wire tray.

Making cakes is easy, and the results taste far better than anything you could buy in a shop. For another banana cake, see this Banana Nut Bread Recipe.



Good Food Matters


Go from Banana Cake Recipe to Healthy Cake Recipes.

Go from Banana Cake Recipe to Easy Healthy Recipes.

Go from Banana Cake Recipe to Healthy Eating Made Easy.
©2005-2010 healthy-eating-made-easy. All Rights Reserved

Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape


footer for banana cake recipe page