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Banana Cake, a simple Recipe with Nuts

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Here I would like to introduce you to my Banana Cake Recipe. My vegan cake is juicy, nutty and has addictive potential.

Today we want to bake something special: a cake with fresh bananas. Bananas are at the forefront of the fruit’s popularity.

They are cheerful yellow, quick to peel and easy to process. Bananas have the great property of binding like eggs in a cake batter.

This makes the eggs superfluous. You don’t have to be vegan to love this cake! We will now start the baking fun… I wish you good luck!

1. Shopping List Banana Cake

I’ll tell you a secret here: anyone can bake a cake!

Even if you don’t have all the ingredients from my recipe at hand, your baking world is colourful and beautiful.

With the right proportions and variable ingredients nothing can go wrong 🙂

This is my ingredient list:Flour, ground almonds, coconut flakes, walnuts and oil are in a ratio of 1:1

It’s all to your taste: You could also use ground hazelnut or oatmeal or do something really crazy that only you can come up with.

Just stick to the indicated proportions, then it’s guaranteed to be good!

If you don’t have saffron in the house, turmeric or no turmeric at all is possible.

Tip from Chef Thomas Sixt
My ingredients for the banana cake at a glance.

2. Recipe Banana Cake

Banana Cake

Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.

Servings 6
Calories 971
Preparation Time 60 Min.
Cook Time 50 Min.
Total Time 170 Min.

Simple baking tutorial for banana cake.

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Banana Cake Recipe Image © Thomas Sixt Chef and Food-Photographer

Ingredients

Cake Dough

1 cup flour (finely sieved)
1 cup ground almonds
1 cup coconut flakes
1 cup oil (rape oil, safflower oil or sunflower oil)
3 pc Banana (medium sized)
2 tbs agave syrup (or brown sugar or (not vegan!) honey)
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 pc pulp of a vanilla pod (or 1 packet of vanilla sugar)
1 pinch Saffron (or curcuma)
2 tbs oil (for brushing out the baking tin)

Cake dough Additions

1 cup shelled walnuts
2 tbs oil
2 tbs coconut blossom sugar
1 pinch Salt

Banana Topping

2 pc Banana (medium sized)
1 tbs iced sugar

Instruction

Preparation step 1
Ingredients banana cake
My ingredients for the banana cake at a glance.

Prepare ingredients

Prepare all ingredients and preheat the oven at 160° C with circulating air.

Brush an oven dish of 18cm diameter with 2 tablespoons of oil.

Cake Batter Nuts

Preparation step 2
Chop the walnuts into small pieces

Prepare walnuts

Chop 1 cup of walnuts into brittle size with a sharp knife.

Preparation step 3
Caramelize the walnuts

Caramelize walnuts

Fry the chopped walnuts in 2 tablespoons of oil in a hot frying pan.

Then sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of coconut blossom sugar and caramelise.

Preparation step 4
caramelized walnuts

Nut caramel cool

Spread the caramelized walnut pieces on a baking paper and let them cool down.

Cake Dough for Banana Cake

Preparation step 5
Ingredients for banana cake batter

Prepare cake dough

Place 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of coconut flakes, 1 cup of ground almonds, 1 cup of oil, 2 tablespoons agave syrup, vanilla pulp of one pod, 1 pinch of saffron and 1 teaspoon baking powder in a mixing bowl.

Preparation step 6
Dough ingredients mixed together

Prepare dough

Mix the ingredients with a mixer for a good 2 minutes to a crumbly dough.

Preparation step 7
Peel the bananas

Prepare bananas

Peel 3 bananas and put them on a baking paper.

Preparation step 8
Banana mashed with a fork

Bananas chop

Mash the bananas with a fork.

Preparation step 9
Dough with banana mash

Banana cake batter

Add the banana paste to the dough.

Preparation step 10
Banana cake batter

Stir banana batter

Using the mixer, mix the dough with the banana paste for 2 minutes, so that the dough falls off the spoon in a ripping motion.

Preparation step 11
Banana cake batter with walnuts

Supplement nuts

Carefully stir the cooled, caramelised walnuts with a wooden spoon into the banana cake batter.

Preparation step 12
Cake pan filled with banana cutlet batter

Fill cake batter

Fill the greased cake tin with the dough.

Preparation step 13
Baked banana cake

Cake baking

Place the filled baking tin in the middle of the oven.

Bake for 35-40 minutes.

Then take it out of the oven and make the cooking test with a wooden stick.

If no dough remains liquid or creamy sticky, the cake dough is ready to bake.

Then you can immediately continue with the topping…

Topping from Bananas

Preparation step 14
Banana cake with topping for gratin

Banana slices decorate

Increase the oven temperature to 220° C and adjust the top heat.

Peel and slice the bananas.

Place the banana slices brick-like on the baked cake.

Dust with 2 tbsp. icing sugar.

Preparation step 15
Banana cake fully baked
I chose a round springform pan with a diameter of 18cm.

Banana cake caramelize

Bake the cake again for 7-10 minutes so that the bananas caramelise.

Alternative: Do not put the cake back in the oven, but use a Créme Brûlée burner to caramelise the banana topping.

Preparation step 16
Finished banana cake with fruit on the plate

Serve banana cake

Serve fresh with cream or fresh berries after cooling down.

Bon appetit!

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4. Baking Pans Tip for Banana Cake

Loaf pan or springform pan or baking sheet – any baking dish will do! Likewise, you could use muffin tins and bake small mini cakes!

An ideal cake snack to offer or for on the way. Reduce the baking time to 12-15 minutes!

Banana cake fully baked
I chose a round springform pan with a diameter of 18cm.
Muffin paper cases
You put the muffin paper cases in the corresponding muffin tin.

5. Secret Tip for WOW Banana Cake

Now comes my sensational tip for you:Caramelise the chopped walnuts and add them to the dough before baking. Don’t forget to add a little salt, it will give a kick to the palate!

Alternatively, you can add dark chocolate shavings or crumbs to the dough.

Crazy people chop up their favourite chocolate bar and add it to the dough.

Everything goes with chocolate, caramel or nuts.

Other nuts and crisps are just as conceivable: Hazelnut, macadamia, cashew, Brazil nut, peanut, sunflower seed… If you like, you can even have raisins – not me!

Caramelized walnuts to cool down on baking paper, complement our banana cake dough wonderfully!
Juicy nutty banana cake on the plate – it makes your mouth water

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