Cake & Cookie Recipes > Date and Banana Cake
1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons mixed spice
8oz peeled banana mashed
4oz dates roughly chopped
2 eggs
3 1/2oz butter
6oz caster/superfine sugar
(see measure conversions for more information)
- Cream the sugar and butter together.
- Add the eggs beating thoroughly between each addition.
- Beat mixture well.
- Mix in mashed bananas and chopped dates.
- Fold in flour and put into a well greased and floured 8 inch tin.
- Bake at 170 degrees C. for 1 1/4 hours.
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How to make date and banana cake:
A cake for those with a really sweet tooth! Dates and bananas are naturally sweet and their sticky unctuousness goes really well in this type of cake. If you are a date lover you may like to try Date Pudding.Ingredients
7oz self raising flour1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons mixed spice
8oz peeled banana mashed
4oz dates roughly chopped
2 eggs
3 1/2oz butter
6oz caster/superfine sugar
(see measure conversions for more information)
Method
- Sieve together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and spice making sure they are all well mixed.- Cream the sugar and butter together.
- Add the eggs beating thoroughly between each addition.
- Beat mixture well.
- Mix in mashed bananas and chopped dates.
- Fold in flour and put into a well greased and floured 8 inch tin.
- Bake at 170 degrees C. for 1 1/4 hours.
If you have a question or comment relevant to this page, then please post it below.
I have been looking for a Date and Banana cake for ages, I lost my recipe on the move to Spain, and now I have found it, its a delicious cake and the more you keep it the better it gets, only trouble is it doesnt last long enough in our house. Thanks.
#4 - Christine - 11/30/2008 - 04:13
These sort of teabread recipes are usually cooked at low temperatures for a long time.However,everyone knows their own oven and how to test a cake for readiness so ultimately you would be well advised to follow your own feelings on the matter of timing.Let us know how the cake turned out and what timing worked for you.
#3 - Mary - 07/30/2007 - 06:31
Vinegar,baking powder (in this case maybe omit the bicarbonate)and/or buttermilk are quite good raising agents (which is in part is what the eggs do). You would have to experiment though.
#2 - Jay - 07/30/2007 - 06:26
do i need to cook the cake for 1 hour and a quarter,it seems a bit long for a normal cake?
#1 - frogfairy - 07/29/2007 - 10:48
My girlfriend would love this but she's allergic to egg. Can anyone suggest an egg alternative as I would love to bake this, or something similar, for her.
#0 - nastypasty - 07/21/2007 - 16:13
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