Banana Dates Wheat Flour Cake

Name: Banana Dates Wheat Flour Cake
Total time: 3000 s
Yield: 6 persons
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup wheat flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1 ripe banana, chopped; 8 dates, soaked and deseeded; 1/4 cup oil; 3/4 cup milk, room temperature; 1 tsp.vanilla essence; 3 tbsp chopped walnuts; 2 tbsp chopped almonds

Archana Bhargava @arch1965

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Ingredients

50 minutes

6 persons

1 cupwheat flour
1 tspbaking powder
1/2 tspbaking soda
1ripe banana, chopped
8dates, soaked and deseeded
1/4 cupoil
3/4 cupmilk, room temperature
1tsp.vanilla essence
3 tbspchopped walnuts
2 tbspchopped almonds

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Steps

50 minutes

1

In a mixing bowl sieve together flour, baking powder and baking soda
2

In a mixer jar put dates, banana and oil, blend them into a smooth paste, add little milk if required
3

Now add this paste to the dry ingredients slowly slowly and mix it by cut and fold method, very gently. Add rest of the milk also and mix well, now add vanilla essence and mix nicely. The batter should be medium thick.
4

Add chopped walnuts to the batter and mix gently. In the meantime preheat the kadai on a gas, on low heat for 10 minutes.
5

Now pour the mixture in the greased and dusted cake tin and tap it remove the air bubbles. Sprinkle chopped almonds on top. Now place this in the kadai on a stand and cover the lid. Bake it for 45 - 50 minutes, first check it after 35 minutes, if it is not done then bake further. If the burner is big then bake it on low heat, if it is small then bake it on medium heat.
6

When done then cool it down and unmould it in a plate, when becomes completely cool then cut into desired pieces. This is a without sugar cake, so healthy and tasty too. You can keep this in the refrigerator for 3 - 4 days. As now during summers it may spoil if we keep it outside.