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Banana, walnut and chocolate plumcake | Anna’s sweets

The banana plumcake, or banana bread, is the best idea for using up ripe, blackened bananas that are always thrown away. Very simple to prepare, it will become one of the tastiest and most wholesome breakfasts you can eat. Enriched with walnuts and chocolate, it will give you a pleasant boost throughout the day.

Ingredients for 8 servings:

3 eggs
150 g sugar
1 pinch of salt
100 g sunflower oil
3 ripe bananas
125 g yoghurt
230 g flour
80 g potato starch
16 g baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
50 g dark chocolate
50 g walnuts

Procedure:

Beat the eggs with the sugar and salt until light and fluffy. Mash two bananas with a fork until smooth. Mixing gently, add the banana puree, oil and yoghurt to the egg whites. Sift the flour, starch and baking powder together and gently add them to the mixture. Flavour with cinnamon or other flavourings to taste (vanilla, lemon, orange, rum, coffee…); roughly chop the chocolate and nuts and add them to the mixture. Preheat the static oven to 180°, pour the mixture into the cake tin lined with baking paper; decorate the surface of the cake with a banana cut lengthwise and walnuts. Bake for 45 minutes. Once cooled, dust with icing sugar and enjoy.

Anna Canevese

Anna Canevese is 21 years old from Jesolo. After obtaining a diploma from the IPSEOA “Elena Cornaro”, she attended ALMA, a prestigious International School of cooking, pastry and hospitality, where she learned all the best pastry techniques (patisserie products, mousses, chocolates, ice creams and cakes) and practiced at a renowned pastry shop in Milan. She obtained her diploma of Professional Pastry Chef, with full marks and now delights the guests of Hotel Danieli, the most prestigious one in Venice.