Banana and Nuts Cake

Banana And Nuts Cake (vegan)

This is such a strong flavorful cake that anyone who tastes a bite of this banana cake will definetly fall in love with it.
This is one of our family's favorite. The beauty of this cake is its  very light on your tongue and guilt free as its free of eggs and Heavy butter..This is a low sweet bread.....and hence you can go on eating this cake without any fear of calories.

This recipe can be improvised and made healthy by replacing the all purpose flour with whole wheat flour.


Ingredients

• 3/4 cup All purpose flour / Maida
• 3/4 cup Mashed Banana (about 2 Big, long ripe bananas)
• 6 tbsp Sugar
• 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/8 tsp Salt
• 1/4 cup Oil
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence

Method:

• Mix the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda and sieve this together to ensure even mixing. Keep this aside.
• Preheat the oven to 180 degree C or 356 degree F.
• Grease an 7" round cake pan with oil and set aside.

• In a mixing bowl, whisk the mashed banana, sugar, oil and vanilla essence until combined.
• Slowly add the sifted flour to the banana mixture and gently fold the mixture until the batter shows no trace of flour. Don't overmix.
• Pour this batter into the prepared cake tin. 
• Bake in preheated oven at 180 degree C  or 356 degree F for 35 minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
• Allow the cake to cool down for 15 minutes and then invert.
• Let it cool completely and cut into pieces.
• Serve & enjoy!