Title: Low Fat Date and Banana Cake
Categories: Lowfat Cake
Yield: 4 Servings

2/3	lb	Wholemeal Flour
2	tb	Baking Powder
6		Dates, pitted
2	tb	Date Syrup
1	tb	Barley Malt Extract
3		Bananas
3	ts	Vanilla Essence
1/8	pt	Soy Milk
1/8	pt	Water
1/4	lb	Apple Sauce
1		Doz Whole Almonds to
		Garnish

This recipe is my modification of the one found in "The Vegan Cookbook", by Gordon Baskerville and Alan Wakeman, published by Faber and Faber 1986.

Mix the flour and baking powder together. Cut the dates up with a pair of scissors and add to the flour. Put the bananas, the date syrup, malt extract, apple sauce, vanilla essence, water and soya 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 non-fat spray 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 soya milk or oil (optional, though the cake gets quite crusty without it). Bake in an oven at about 170 deg C/ 340 deg F for approximately an hour or until a knife comes out clean.

This makes quite a substantial cake. To make a lighter cake use a flour with less bran in it and use concentrated apple juice as a sweetener instead of barley malt extract.

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 14:18:16 BST From: Michael Traub

Converted to MM format by Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md.

From: Dale Shipp Date: 04-05-98 (18:47) The Once And Future Legend (1) Cooking

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