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Healthy Banana Cake

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Today we're making a healthy banana cake with ripe bananas and whole oat flour, an easy recipe to enjoy a wholesome homemade cake for breakfast or an afternoon snack. At Cocinandomelavida, we love adding a crunchy touch with walnuts and cacao nibs, and putting those ripe bananas waiting in the fruit bowl to good use.

Prep: 15 minCook: 35 minServes: 8

Ingredients

Here are the ingredients you need for this recipe

  • 2 ripe bananas
  • 3 yogurt pots (used as a measure) of whole oat flour
  • 2 pots of 0% fat yogurt (plain or flavored)
  • 5 egg whites
  • 1 whole egg
  • Walnuts
  • Baking powder
  • Pure cacao nibs
  • Sweetener (optional)

Step by step

Instructions

  1. 1Preheat the oven to 200ºC.
  2. 2Whisk the egg whites well (no need to whip them to stiff peaks).
  3. 3Add the ripe bananas to a blender.
  4. 4Next, add the 2 yogurts and the egg yolk, and blend thoroughly until smooth.
  5. 5Sift the oat flour together with the baking powder and add them to the blender.
  6. 6Finally, fold in the whites and the sweetener if you like it extra sweet.
  7. 7Mix everything well until you get a smooth, even batter.
  8. 8Pour into an oven-safe silicone baking mold.
  9. 9Top with the cacao nibs and walnuts.
  10. 10Bake for 30-35 minutes at 180ºC.

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