Date and Banana Cake--South India (egg and milk free dessert)

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Date and Banana Cake--South India

 

2/3 lb. whole wheat flour

2 tbsps. baking powder

6 dates, pitted

2 tbsps. date syrup (boil down a few dates to make a syrup)

1 tbsp. molasses

3 bananas

3 tsps. vanilla

1/8 pint milk or soy milk

1/8 pint water

1/4 lb. apple sauce

1 dozen whole almonds to garnish

 

Mix the flour and baking powder together. Cut the dates up and add to the flour.

Put the bananas, the date syrup, molasses, apple sauce, vanilla essence, water

and milk in a blender and blend for about twenty seconds. You don't really want

the bananas to be totally pulverised, a few little chunks are nice. Mix the

liquid and dry ingredients together. Place in a 6 inch baking tin, which has

been previously coated with butter and dusted with flour. Optionally place a few

almonds on top of the cake for decoration. Spray the top of the cake with a

little milk or oil (optional, though the cake gets quite crusty without it).

Bake in an oven at about 340 degrees for approximately an hour or until a knife

comes out clean. Ice the cake, garnish, and offer.