Banana Almond Cake

Since my childhood days I'm very much found of cakes... As I'm the owner of my kitchen, I thought of trying cakes... My husband also likes cakes, but here in US we find cakes with egg... so thought of trying at home... I made little changes to my mom's procedure and it was a success...

Here goes the procedure for Banana Almond Cake (also called Eggless Sponge Cake)...

Ingredients:
All purpose flour (Maida) - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Salt - 1/4 spoon
Butter - 1 cup
Baking Powder - 1/4 spoon
Almond finely chopped - 1/2 cup
Ripen banana - 1
Milk - 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder - 1 spoon
1/4 cups of soda (like pepsi, coke, optional)


Procedure:
Pre-heat the oven for 350 F.
First smash ripen banana and add melted butter to it. Add milk and mix well and keep it aside. In a mixing bowl take the flour, cardamom powder, finely chopped almond, sugar, salt and baking powder. Mix them well. To this add banana mixture and soda (Soda gives rising effect. As we are not using eggs, I suggest its good to use). Mix in one direction to avoid lumps. The batter should be like thick paste. do not liquefy. U can adjust the consistency by adding milk or flour. Do not add water. Once the mixture is ready pour it into greased baking pan and keep in oven for 20-30 minutes. To check weather the cake is baked or not, u can check the change in color to brown, or pears a tooth pick. If tooth pick comes out easily and non sticky, your cake is baked very well.



Remove the pan from oven and keep it for cooling... once is it cooled, cut the cake into pieces... Banana Almond Cake is ready to serve :)