Soft fluffy Walnut and Banana cake, not too sweet and just right!Ideal teatime cake with the goodness of whole-wheat flour.A very healthy food option for your kids snack box for school.
My husband was pestering me to make this cake since many days .so when I had a couple of banana getting ripe i decided to make this banana walnut cake
Incorporating banana's or rather replacing eggs with bananas in baking is a boon I say. It adds taste, aroma and incredibly tempting flavor
Banana Walnut cake is very delicious & healthy cake.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF BANANA & WALNUT
1.Walnuts are rich source of energy and an excellent source of omega 3 fatty acids.Regular use of walnuts helps decrease the bad cholesterol (LDL) and helps increase the good cholesterol(HDL) in blood.
2. bananas,as u all know is a good source of potassium,manganese,Vit B6,folate and carbohydrate
I made this cake in pressure cooker for those people who dont own microwave yet crave to make bakery style cakes and the results were equally satisfying .Please remove cooker ring and whistle while making the cake or else your cooker can get damaged,.use an old cooker for making this cake.
BEST THING THIS CAKE IS MADE FROM HALF WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR & HALF MAIDA WHICH MAKES IT MORE HEALTHY
.Do try this & Enjoy !!
Ingredients
1/2 cup wholewheat flour
1/2 cup refined flour
1/2 cup milk
1 big banana
1/4 cup of Walnuts
2 tbsp. of Yogurt or curd
2 tbsp. of vegetable oil
3/4 cup of sugar
A pinch of salt
1 tbsp of cocoa powder
A pinch of Cinnamon powder
1/2 tsp. of Baking powder
1/2 tsp. of Baking soda
Method:
1.Grease the cake tin with a little butter or oil.
2. Preheat a pressure cooker as follows.Remove the whistle/regulator of cooker you wont need it throughout the process. . Place a pressure cooker on flame and place a separator and close the cooker with its lid. Remove the whistle/regulator you wont need it throughout the process. (you can either close the cooker with the lid as you normally do or place the Lid upside down too)
3. Then place the cooker set up on high flame for 10 minutes. till the cooker is being preheated lets prepare batter.
4 Peel the banana and slice it into small pieces. Grind together the banana slices, sugar, yogurt, milk and oil in a blender. Keep it aside.next add vanilla essence .
5.Add the baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder, salt and cinnamon to maida & wheat flour in a big vessel. Sift all the dry ingredients together for at least twice.
6.Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients little by little. Mix with light hands, folding the flour mix gently into the wet ingredients.
7.Crush the walnuts into small chunks and mix1 tsp maida .this is done to ensure that walnuts dont sink in the batter . now mix these walnut pieces to the batter .add few pieces at the base of cake tin.
8.Pour the batter into this greased 6 inch pan, do not pour up to the brim, stop when the pan is 3/4th full. (The batter we have prepared will be perfectly enough to fill 3/4th of the pan).
9.•Now open the cooker and place the cake pan with batter carefully on the separator plate and close the lid.(whistle or regulator is not needed )
10.Now switch the flame to low mode and cook for 30 to 35 minutes on low flame. To Check if your cake has got cooked insert a knife or toothpick in centre of cake if it comes out clean that means cake is done. my cake took 36 minutes to cook.
11•When the cake is ready,remove from flame and set aside. Do not open the lid immediately. Open after 10 minutes. •You will find that the cake has puffed up well and would have browned nice and evenly too.
12. Allow the cake to cool down for 10mins.•Just tap the cake tin and the cake would come out easily. But in case if you find difficulty in tapping the cake out, just run a knife through the sides of the cake and tap it out.
13.Leave aside on a wire rack until it cools down. Then cut into pieces
ENJOY YOUR CAKE
Tips
1.The cake will give a nice aroma when it is done. This is a basictechnique to find out if the cake is done or not.
2. cut cake into slices only after it has cooled down completely (leaving atleast 3-4 hours) to get firm neat slices.
3. Replace refined flour (maida) with wholewheat flour if you want a light and fluffy cake and are ready to let go off some healthy bites
4.Add Cashew,raisins or almonds for a different taste.
5.After the batter is ready, don't allow the batter to sit for more than the preheating time as cake can turn hard.
6.while inserting fork or toothpick try checking in the center if itscooked completely or not.If the center of the cake isnt cooked and is slightly sticky, cover the top of the cake with butter paper and bake it for 5 more mins,it will be perfect. The butter paper covering will avoid more browning on top at the same time the centre will be cooked perfectly.
7.This walnut & banana egg less cake can be made without sugar if you like your cakes to be less sweet, since the sweetness of banana is good enough for it.
8.Please remove cooker ring and whistle while making the cake or else your cooker can get damaged,.use an old cooker for making this cake.
9.Do not forget to line the pan or else the cake might stick to the pan
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