Banana & Peanuts Cake from the scratch

This cake came out super moist, with a strong banana flavor and just a hint of peanuts hiding out in the background.

Ingredients :

• 125g soft unsalted butter, in pieces, plus extra for greasing
• 150g light brown soft sugar
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 3 overripe bananas, mashed
• 275g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 60g crunchy or smooth peanuts 
• sliced banana and honey, to serve

I’m a bit of a banana addict, if you hadn’t already noticed.and my husband likes peanuts, so thought of making banana peanuts cake.

For the topping:

• 50g cold butter, cubed
• 75g plain flour
• 3 tbsp brown sugar
• 3 tbsp unsalted peanuts, roughly chopped

Method:

• Use a little butter to grease a 10.5cm x 21cm, 7cm-deep loaf tin; line with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 180°C, fan 160°C, gas 4. Melt the remaining butter for the cake in a pan and set aside.

• Now make the topping. In a bowl, rub the cold butter into the flour and sugar until it looks like chunky breadcrumbs (or use a blender). Stir in the chopped peanuts and set aside.

• Next, whisk the light brown soft sugar with the eggs until they are combined. Fold in the bananas.

• Sift the flour and baking powder into the bowl and fold into the mixture with a large metal spoon. Add the melted butter and peanuts (you can grind the peanuts into crunchy paste to addin) mix until thoroughly combined. Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin. Scatter the crumble mixture on top.

• Bake on the middle shelf of the preheated oven for about 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a knife /toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Cover the loaf with foil during cooking if it appears to be browning too quickly.

• Remove the loaf from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack. Serve cut into slices with fresh banana and a drizzle of  honey.

you can do chocolate frosting also, it gives you extra delicious taste  but here i have just prepared roughly chopped banana as i have no chocolate chips in stock.😒😒


Chocolate Frosting:

• 1 cup sugar
• 6 tbsp butter
• 6 tbsp milk
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips (milk chocolate or semi-sweet)

Add sugar, butter, and milk to a small saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil. 

Boil for exactly 60 seconds and remove from heat. Stir in chocolate chips and continue stirring until the chocolate has melted. 

Use frosting immediately as it will harden quickly.