Banana Walnut cake

Ingredients

All-purpose flour	200 gm
Sugar	200 gm
Butter (at room temperature)	200 gm
Eggs	2 Nos
Buttermilk	50 ml
Cinnamon powder	1 tsp
Nutmeg powder	½ tsp
Cardamom crushed	5 Nos
Walnuts finely chopped	100 gm

 

Ingredients for the icing

Butter	1 tbsp
Sugar powder	1 tbsp
Caramelized syrup	1 tbsp
Salt	1 prise

 

Preparation

Whisk butter and sugar in a bowl till it becomes creamy. Add the eggs one after another and whisk and mix well together to a light foamy cream. Mash the banana and add to the bowl. Add flour, buttermilk, cinnamon, crushed cardamom and nutmeg powder, walnuts and mix gently to a fine batter.

Prepare baking tins, grease them with butter ore line with parchment and pour the batter into them and flatten with a spatula. Preheat the oven to 180 C and bake the cake for around 10 minutes. Insert a clean knife or fork in the middle of the cake. If it comes out clean the cake is cooked well. Remove from oven and allow to cool.

For the icing (glace) heat butter, sugar, salt and syrup in a pan till all the ingredients are melted and dissolved together. Pour the glace over the cake and distribute it evenly over the cake, allow to cool.

Cut into pieces of desired size and serve.