Friday 17 August 2012

Desert: Banana-Walnut-Coco powder cake


Banana-Walnut-Coco powder cake:-
A 171-calorie food, a banana walnut muffin gives you enough energy as a partial meal for breakfast or a snack. 
The standard calories in a daily diet equal approximately 2,000 and 171 is approximately 8.5 percent of the total.



Ingredients: 
3 Big ripe bananas 
125g butter or u can use 2-3 tbsp. Olive Oil (softened) 
½ cup golden caster sugar 
2 tbsp. coco powder
1 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
1 cup yogurt  or 2 medium eggs
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract 
50g chopped walnuts 
250g flour (sifted) 
Pinch of salt
Method:
1. Heat the oven to 180 C. Lightly butter a 25cm/10cm (10in x 4in) loaf tin. 
2. Mash bananas to a purée. 
3. Mix yogurt or egg, oil, vanilla extract, and sugar with an electric beater until smooth and pale. Now add banana puree in it. Add ½ amount of chopped walnut. 
4. Mix flour and salt, baking soda, baking powder, coco powder in separate bowl.
5. Now add dry mixture into wet mixture and fold very lightly. 
6. Bake for half an hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool in the tin for 20 minutes before tuning out.
Tip:The good: This food is very low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium. It is also a good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin C, Potassium and Manganese, and a very good source of Vitamin B6.
The bad: A large portion of the calories in this food come from sugars.



2 comments:

Health Zingo said...
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Unknown said...

Thanks a lot for the lovely suggestion. will try next time with dates. though i have one more idea to use honey or jaggery...