Showing posts with label walnut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label walnut. Show all posts

8 Aug 2011

Banana, Apricot and Walnut Cake


I've been making this banana cake for several years... usually using only bananas.
I decided to be a bit adventurous today and added apricots and walnut and it turned out quite nice. So here's the (very easy) recipe:

Ingredients:

2 cups of breadcrumbs
2 cups of sugar
1 tbsp of baking powder
1 cup of dried apricot, chopped
1 cup of walnuts, chopped
* 3 bananas
* 1/3 cup of vegetable oil or extra virgin olive oil
* 3 eggs

Method:

Blend all the items marked with *. Pour the paste into a bowl, add the other ingredients, gently mixing (baking powder last). Put it in a buttered cake tin sprinkled with cinnamon and bake it at 200C for about 30 or 40 minutes. To check if it's ready, stick it with a toothpick (clean, please) and see if it's dry.


Eat moderately, so you don't get fat :D

Calories: 295 (serving size 100g)

22 Jun 2011

Chocolate Cake with Walnuts


Ingredients

3 tbsp butter
300 g sugar
300 g plain flour
2 eggs
3 tbsp cocoa powder
100 ml milk
1 tbsp baking powder
100 g chopped chocolate (whichever you like)
100 g walnuts

Method

Beat together the butter and sugar until creamy. Add the eggs, the flour, cocoa, milk and baking powder, slowly mixing through. Add the chocolate and walnuts and pour the mixture into a greased cake tin. Bake at 170C for about 50 minutes, depending on the oven.

Serve with tea or coffee :)

PS: Sorry about the picture. I no longer own a good camera, so I have to rely on my phone to illustrate the recipes!