Spiral Mountain Honey Cake (Banjo Kazooie inspired)

Recipe adapted from the The Little Book of Rarecipes

Ingredients

• 150g roughtly-chopped pitted dates
• 75g unsalted butter
• 35g of your favourite sweetener
• 250g peeled and roughly chopped bananas (about 2 large bananas)
• 3 eggs
• 200g all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 320 degrees F.
2. In a food processor, add the chopped dates, butter, sweetener, and very hot water. Stir and let them soak/melt for 5-10 minutes.
3. Add banana chunks and eggs, blend until smooth, and spat out the mixture into a medium mixing bowl.
4. Sift the flour, baking powder, and baking soda into the mixture. Mix until well-combined.
5. Pour the batter into a greased/floured loaf tin and bake the cake for 1 hour in the oven.
6. Remove the loaf tin from the oven. Let it sit for 10 minutes, before removing and cutting.

Notes

• For my “favourite sweetener”, I used 25 mL of blueberry syrup (by accident because it was in a honey bottle) and 10 mL of honey. The original rewcipe uses light brown soft sugar.
• I used two overripe bananas which made the cake denser.