Not Just a Man's World

Another recipe from Live Primal (I’ve now established that this is where the carrot and orange cake recipe originated), I quickly threw this together on a Friday evening recently when I came home from work to find that Chris was miserable because his computer was broken.  I prefer it to the carrot and orange cake, probably because it’s not as sweet, but don’t be fooled into thinking it is a bread substitute recipe.  This banana bread is definitely a cake and it definitely put a smile on both our faces.

Paleo banana bread

Ingredients:
3 eggs, separated
4 tbsp honey
4 tbsp olive oil
2 small bananas or 1 large banana, mashed
1 tsp vanilla essence
130g almond flour (or ground almonds)

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 200C/350F.
2. Cream the egg yolks and honey in a large bowl until light and fluffy.
3. Add the oil, vanilla essence, mashed banana and almond flour and combine well.
4. In a separate bowl, beat the eg whites until stiff peaks form.
5. Using a clean metal spoon, fold a spoonful of the egg whites into the banana mixture to pull it away from the sides before gradually folding the rest of the egg whites into the mixture.  Be careful not to knock all the air out of the egg whites.
6. Line a loaf tin with baking paper and pour the banana mixture into this.
7. Place in the oven for 40-45 mins (Note: not the 20-25 mins stated on the Live Primal website) or until cooked.  Cake is cooked when a cake skewer comes out clean, though in the case of this cake I could actually see uncooked cake mix jst below the surface despite the skewer coming out reasonably cleanly.

As with the carrot and orange cake, it may come out looking a little charred on the surface, but it doesn’t taste and the cake inside is wonderfully fluffy and moist.

Related posts:

1. Paleo recipes: almond banana pancakes
2. Paleo kitchen experiments: carrot and orange cake
3. Paleo Christmas entertaining
4. Paleo recipes: chocolate and orange mousse