We had a load of bananas gone black and squishy 'cause they had funny-smelling skins which put us off eating them. So I decided to use them up and make a banana and pecan cake:-
Ingredients
- 105g Butter
- 482g Banana (5 over-ripe mashed bananas)
- 65g Brown Sugar
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 Eggs, Medium
- 1 Tsp/2g Baking Powder
- 81g Raisins (I was aiming for 100 but had to crack into the snack boxes of Sun Maid which got annoying)
- 53g Clear Honey (supposed to be 50g, but with honey it's always a bit tricky to be exact!)
- 40g Pecan Nuts
- 250g Wholemeal Flour
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4. Lightly grease a 23x13cm loaf tin.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt.
3. In a separate bowl, cream together butter, honey and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour mixture into prepared loaf tin.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a knife inserted into centre of the loaf comes out clean. Leave to cool in tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire cooling rack.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt.
3. In a separate bowl, cream together butter, honey and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour mixture into prepared loaf tin.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a knife inserted into centre of the loaf comes out clean. Leave to cool in tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire cooling rack.
Mashed banana:-
Banana, egg, butter, sugar and honey mix:-
Everything mixed together:-
In the tin:-
Baked!:-
Makes 10 generous slices:-
| Nutrition Data Per Serving | |
|---|---|
| Calories (kcal) | 309.1 |
| Carbohydrate (g) | 40.9 |
| Protein (g) | 6.3 |
| Fat (g) | 13.2 |
| Fibre (g) | 4.8 |
| Fruit & Veg | 0.8 |
B - toasted Food Doctor wholemeal and seed bagel with butter and Marmite
*gym*
S - 1 scoop MP Max in semi-skimmed milk
L - chorizo and Monterey Jack with English mustard and white, seedless grapes on white ciabatta-style baguette with a handful of cherry tomatoes
S - Costa skinny latte with half a Costa breakfast loaf
D - Waitrose Aberdeen Angus and cracked black pepper chiploatas, with butternut squash, potato and carrot mash
S - banana and pecan cake with a big mug of tea
Exercise:- 66 minutes gym
| Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise) | 2200 2263] |
| Protein (g) | 115.7 (21.6%) |
| Carbohydrate (g) | 242.4 (42.4%) |
| Fat (g) | 85.6 (36.0%) |
| Fruit & Veg | 5.0 |
