Thursday, April 26, 2012

Nigella's Banana Cake...

She's the Goddess... Her Recipes are outstanding... She never lets me down... She makes me the party pleaser...




This recipe is Nigellas Banana Loaf... And its outstanding.. I made it two hours back... and nothing remains...

Ingredients


100g sultanas

75ml Rum ( I used Old Monk thanks to JJ)

175g plain flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

125g unsalted butter, Softened

175g sugar

2 large eggs

3 very ripe bananas (about 300g weighed without skin), mashed

60g chopped walnuts

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 teaspoon Cinnamon powder ( Please powder them at the moment, packaged powder is just crap.)


Recipe



> Put the sultanas and rum in a small lil saucepan and bring to the boil. Try your level best to let the quantity of the Rum remain the same... ;) 

> Remove from the heat, cover and leave aside till required. The sultanas will absorb most of the rum... If not... No.. u don get a treat... that goes into the cake too...

> Preheat the oven to 170ÂșC and get started on the rest. 


> Sieve the flour, baking powder, bicarb, cinnamon and salt in a medium-sized bowl, combine well.


> In a large bowl, mix the softened butter and sugar and beat until blended and Light n Frothy. 


> Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the mashed bananas. Then, with your wooden spoon, stir in the walnuts, sultanas and the extra rum and vanilla extract. 


> Add the flour mixture, a third at a time, stirring well after each bit. Scrape into the cake tin and bake for about an hour. I divided the entire mixture into two cake tins.


> When it's ready, an inserted toothpick should come out clean maybe with a few crumbs.

> Leave in the tin on a rack to cool.


Outstandingly soft... crumbly and heavenly....


Goes into the " Must Bake"...







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