Banana, Carrot and Walnut Cake
This cake is easy to make with healthy ingredients like carrot, banana and walnuts. The nuts are my favourite bit.
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- Cake
- 175g soft brown sugar
- 3 medium eggs
- 175g plain flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 175ml sunflower oil
- 90g walnut pieces
- 175g carrot, grated
- 2 medium ripe bananas, mashed
- Icing
- 75g butter, softened
- 75g cream cheese
- 150g icing sugar, sifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 30g walnuts, chopped for decoration
Directions
Preparation:25min ›
Cook:1hour15min ›
Ready in:1hour40min
- Preheat the oven to 170 degrees C. Lightly oil a 50cm springform pan.
- Beat the eggs and the sugar together until pale and thick.
- Sift in the flour, baking powder, salt and bicarbonate of soda. Mix well then add the oil and walnuts. Then the carrot and banana.
- Pour the mixture into the springform pan. Bake for 1 1/4 hours or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Cover with foil if the top of the cake begins to brown too quickly. Take out and cool on a rack.
- Icing: beat the butter and cream cheese together then add the sugar and vanilla. Spread onto the cold cake. Sprinkle with walnuts.
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Reviews and Ratings
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Reviews in English (9)
This is a beautifully moist recipe. I substituted the flour for a gluten free varietyand it is one of the best results I have had with any cake I've tried. New family favourite - 03 Oct 2012
Excellent cake. Very moist. A 50cm pan is obviously ridiculous. So too would be a 50mm pan. I used a round 20cm pan. - 05 Jun 2015
Delicious and healthy. The pan size in the ingredients is however wrong - think it should be 50mm not 50cm - 04 Aug 2010