banana walnut date cake

 

ingredients

• 175g softened butter, plus extra for the tin
• 200g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 3 tbsp clear honey
• 2 (about 350g with skins on)overripe bananas
• 100g stoned date
• 50g chopped walnut

For the glaze

• 2 tbsp clear honey
• 25g butter
• 50g walnut half

Method

• STEP 1

  Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Butter and line the base of an 18cm Bundt mould or round cake tin with baking parchment. Put the flour, cinnamon, butter, sugar, eggs and honey in a large mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or hand-held electric mixer until light and fluffy.
• STEP 2

  Mash the bananas and chop the dates. Stir into the cake mix with the walnuts. Spoon into the prepared tin and smooth the top. Bake for 40-50 mins until firm to the touch and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean (a round tin may take 10-20 mins more). Cool in the tin for 15 mins, then turn out and cool on a wire rack.