Iced Banana & Walnut Loaf Cake

by | Jul 6, 2011 | Baking, Cake, Recipe | 7 comments

Here’s my old favourite recipe, again. The No Fuss Fudge Cake (NFFC) but in the form of a loaf cake. I thought I’d won the lottery by finding a banana in my freezer and made it into a cake. The kids are having banana withdrawls and at around $15 per kilo at the moment, they can continue to have withdrawls. After the floods earlier this year and cyclones, the banana industry is still trying to get back on it’s feet and they’re so ridiculously overpriced. I used to get sick at the sight of those slimy, black bananas in the freezer but seeing one recently got me all excited.

Iced Banana & Walnut NFFC Loaf Cake

1 and half cups plain flour
3 tablespoons cocoa (omitted)
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon white vinegar
6 tablespoons oil (I use canola)
1 teaspoon bicarb soda
half teaspoon salt
1-2 bananas, mashed
1/2 walnuts, chopped finely

Turn oven to 180 C. Grease a 20cm tin well. Dust inside the tin with a little flour. Tap out excess. Put the flour, sugar, banana, walnuts and water in a bowl. Add vanilla, vinegar, oil, baking soda and salt. Mix with beaters until smooth. (Mixture is runny.) Pour into the tin. Bake 35 to 40 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes then take out of tin. Ice with lemon icing. You could also leave uniced.

Lemon Buttercream:
2 cups icing sugar
100gm butter, softened
juice of 1 lemon
 
 

7 Comments

  1. Di-licious
    Di-licious on July 6, 2011 at 11:46 pm

    Oh how I miss banana cake and muffins…..sigh….

  2. Stephanie @ henry happened
    Stephanie @ henry happened on July 7, 2011 at 12:44 am

    Oh, I wish I could send you a whole crate of bananas! How are things faring otherwise? Ok, I hope. This sounds yummy!! I love your measurements tho b/c I have no idea how to translate grams or C but it sounds cool 🙂

  3. Roz from 'la bella vita'
    Roz from 'la bella vita' on July 7, 2011 at 4:38 am

    Mmmmm, Anne! Just perfect or the (opposite) season that we are on! I love cakes like this!

  4. www.StarHughes.com
    www.StarHughes.com on July 8, 2011 at 7:32 am

    Yum! I love how you adapted the recipe – it sounds great though!! And the pictures are great too!!

  5. Miz Helen
    Miz Helen on July 9, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    Hi Ann,
    It is good to see you. When you were talking about your evening begin cool and the days warm, oh my I just have to sigh, the heat here is horrible. They are telling us that it is the worst dry weather since the 1800's, WOW! Your Banana Walnut Bread looks very good. It is a little different from mine and I am going to try it. Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and sure hope to see you again real soon!
    Miz Helen

  6. Bronnie Marquardt
    Bronnie Marquardt on May 23, 2014 at 1:41 am

    This looks great. Perfect for using up our leftover bananas

  7. Tammi
    Tammi on June 21, 2014 at 3:39 pm

    There's an error with this recipe 🙁 The icing recipe listed is for the lemon buttercream lol. I know it's just a simple substitution with the lemon juice but thought I'd let you know so you could correct the recipe. Thanks for all the yummy and time saving recipes etc. Love your site