Jan 7, 2012

Banana, Cranberries & Walnut Butter Cake

This butter cake recipe is definitely a keeper! Soft, moist, flavourful and very buttery! Perfect for afternoon tea with a cup of coffee... Thumb up! Do give it a try and see if you agree with me?   



Recipe adapted from Cooking Crave, make slight modification.


Banana, Cranberries & Walnut Butter Cake
Ingredients:
230g Butter (room temperature)
2 tbsp Honey (optional)
1/2 tsp Vanilla essence
4 Eggs
140g Castor sugar
270g Self-raising flour
1/4 tsp Baking soda
1/4 tsp Salt

240g Ripe bananas (mashed)
50g Chopped walnuts
2 tbsp of Dried cranberries (soak with 1 tbsp of rum liquor)




Method:
Preheat oven at 170C. Lined the base of two 8"x3" loaf pan or a 7" square pan with baking paper.
1. Sift the flour, baking soda & salt together, set aside.
2. Cream butter, sugar, honey & vanilla essence until light & fluffy.
3. Add in egg one at a time. Slowly beat till it's well mixed.
4. Fold in 1/2 portion of the sifted dry ingredients to combine before adding in mashed banana. Followed by the remaining dry ingredients, dried cranberries/nuts & mixed till well combined.
5. Pour batter into lined baking pan and bake in a preheated oven for 50mins or until the skewer inserted in the middle of the cake came out clean.


Dated on 8th Sep 2011

17 comments:

  1. Gosh!!! This look good and I happen to have banana in the pantry too :) Going to try this :)

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  2. Hope you will like this as much as I do!

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  3. Wendy, you really nailed it.  Looks really yummy.

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  4. Looks great! I love the idea of walnuts and cranberries!!!! Awesome, purely awesome!

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  5. Thanks Helen for your lovely comment! Happy New Year!

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  6. Wonderful !Banana cake is my family's all time favourite!

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  7. Hi Wendy, I just baked this cake today. Very yummy we love the taste. but my cake was rather crumbed mb i was too easy to cut while hot lolz

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  8. I love banana cakes and this looks really good.  Book marking it ...

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  9. Hi Wendy,
    Thanks for being so generous with your recipes.
    I tried your cashew nut cookies and they were a big hit with my husband and kids.
    Also tried your banana cake which has since become my favourite :)

    Here's wishing  you a Happy Chinese New Year!

    Regards
    YM

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  10. Hi YM,

    You are welcome! Happy Lunar New Year to you and your family!

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  11. you make me want to go out now and buy cake to eat. 

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  12. I baked this - really good.  thanks for sharing.

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  13. HI Wendy, Another thumbs- up from me. I baked this yesterday and it turned out well. I am so happy to try out your recipes so far with great success. Does the size of the pan make a difference in terms of cooking time? I noticed that somehow the cake is slightly denser at the bottom. When i added the 4th egg, the mixture started to curd up. What does this mean? Anyhow, it turned out well. Will be trying your non baked durian cheese cake today. :-)

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  14. Hi wendy, i just instagraming and find your recipee..how tall is the cake if you use 7"square pans?can i substitute the banana with peanut butter?or do you have peanut butter cake recipe?

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  15. Hi,wendy...i just instagraming and find your blog..your cake look so wonderful that i wanna make them..i wanna make oreo peanut butter cake...can i use this recipe and substitute banana with peanut butter?how about the amount of it?or do you have peanut butter cake recipe?

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  16. Hi.. If I make this into a cup cake, the baking time should be much shorter right? Perhaps 20 - 25 mins? TIA

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