Friday, 30 August 2013

Banana Pound Cake



Ingredients:



  • Bananas - 3 (preferably ripe)
  • All purpose flour (maida) - 2 cups
  • Sugar - 3/4th cup
  • Baking powder - half tsp 
  • Baking soda - half tsp
  • Unsalted Butter - 75 grams
  • Vanilla essence - 2 drops
  • Salt - a generous pinch
  • Egg - 1 (veggies can skip egg )



Method:


  1. In a bowl mash bananas and make it in to a fine paste, add vanilla essence and mix well. Keep aside
  2. In another bowl add butter, salt and sugar, and mix well until smooth with a spoon or fork you can even use a hand blender.
  3. Sieve the flour in a bowl and add baking powder, baking soda and mix it up. Now add the mashed banana and butter mixture to this and mix it nicely, also beat an egg and add to this.
  4. Now take a oven safe cake tray and grease it with butter, dust the tray with little flour, remove the excess flour and pour the banana mixture in to it .
  5. Bake this in a pre heated oven of 180 deg Celsius for 20 - 30 minutes (depends upon the oven you are using) 
  6. Do a toothpick test after 20 minutes , if the toothpick comes out clean then the cake is ready, if not bake it for another 5 - 10 minutes.


Note: You can also add the left over mixture in to muffin moulds and bake it. 

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