Recipes from Friends & Family: Banana Dates cake

Ingredients
All purpose flour - 2 cups (approx cup capacity - 200ml)
Ripe Banana - 1
Pitted Dates - handful
Chopped Almonds - 10 (as needed)
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
lemon juice - 1/s tsp
powdered sugar - 1 cup
Oil - about 1/2 cup
Yoghurt - about 1/2 cup

Method
Preheat the oven for 15mins
Sift the all purpose flour, add in the baking powder and baking soda. Mix well and keep aside
Mash the ripe banana with a fork and add in the chopped pitted dates. To this add the vanilla essence and keep aside
In a bowl add the oil, add the powered sugar and beat well with a whisk. Add in the banana mix and keep mixing.
Now add the dry mix to the wet mix slowly, keep adding curd little by little until all the flour is corporated and it becomes a nice batter
If the batter is too thick add 1-2tsp milk.
Add the lemon juice to this.
Add the chopped nuts and give a good stir.

Prepare the cake dish by applying butter/oil and dust it with flour. Tile and tap to remove excess flour
Pour the prepared batter into the dish and place in the oven at 180c for 40mins
Keep checking every 5 mins after 30 mins.
If the cake is browning on the top cover with foil and continue
Remove cake when tooth prick inserted comes out clean

Let the cake cool on a rack for 5-10 mins
Once cooled place a plate on top and invert it. It would help to use a knife around the the cake before tilting.

Enjoy the cake!!

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