09/11/2024
Well, itās been a long time between drinks, and Iām long overdue for another instalment of . So when babies come home from uni, Mumma bear gets baking .. and hereās the perfect new recipe Iāve found for my uni-student lover of banana cakes! š I can hand on heart turn this one into No.29 of CMB because I havenāt come across this version yet and never cooked this one before, but I will definitely be be coming bake to it. I have been crushing on Annabelle Langbein (and her recipes) long before she graced our tv screens, and she will feature in my series here several times, coz I have at least 4 of her books. I often find myself returning to her recipes over and over and this is my new fave of a pretty common-place cake. What I love about it, firstly, is its size! Itās a big recipe which means it does indeed make enough for one decent cake (22cm) for the day, but then thereās enough to put the rest into small loaf tins, as I havenāt saved up large tuna tins like she suggests here for mini cakes - but I will SO be doing that from now on .. what a great idea!!! So now Iāve got a couple of small cakes in my freezer to pull out when Iām short of time but still want to look like a domestic goddess š. Now hereās for the nutritionist healthy baking hacks: I used only 1cup of sugar (not 1 1/2cupā¦ always only use 2/3rds of sugar in a recipe, it has no effect on the outcome, and is still perfectly sweet enough, especially when topping it eventually with a bit of lemon icing ), I used half butter and half low saturated-fat spread to reduce the overall saturated fat content, I used 1/3rd whole meal flour versus all white to up the fibre content, and my mashed bananas didnāt quite make the 2-cup volume so I made up the rest with Greek yoghurt, which lowers the sugar a bit more and ups the protein š This recipe was so good I bet the Carrot Cake will be just as good so Iāve kept that in the picture too. Two versions of faves that are sure winners
