Bran Banana Bars Recipes

Ingredients :

150 g wholemeal flour

50 g bran

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp ground allspice

1/4 tsp salt

2 egg

150 g light soft brown sugar

9 tbsp salad oil

1.2 tsp vanilla essence

3 medium banana

75 g chopped walnuts

Cream Cheese Icing :

75 g full fat soft cream cheese

50 g butter or margarine

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

35 g icing sugar

Method :

1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.

2. Grease a 11 x 7" cake tin.

3. Stir together flour, bran, baking powder, spice and salt.

4. Beat together eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla until well mixed.

5. Mash the bananas and add to the egg mixture.

6. Stir into the dry ingredients with the nuts.

7. Put into the prepared tin and bake for 30 minutes.

8. Cool in the tin.

9. If liked, cut into squares to serve plain.

10. To ice the cake, cream together the cheese and fat.

11. Work in the vanilla essence and beat in the sugar until light and fluffy.

12. Ice the cake, cut into squares and serve.

Banana give moisture and flavor to cake mixtures, and this spicy cake is delicious plain or topped with a cream cheese icing.

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