Banana Blueberry Tea-Time Cake

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Makes
two 8″ cakes
Author Notes
This cake is pleasant to the holidays, on legend of I deem it tastes better made the night earlier than! I admire it within the morning with tea or coffee, but wouldn’t enlighten no to sampling it within the afternoon, or as dessert. —Cristina Sciarra
Components
3/4 cup
unsalted butter, melted, plus more for greasing the pan
3 cups
all-motive flour, plus more for flouring the pan
3
very ripe bananas
1
medium lemon
11/2 teaspoon
baking soda
1/4 teaspoon
salt
1
pinch nutmeg
1 cup
sugar
3
vast eggs
1 cup
mild brown sugar
11/2 cup
buttermilk
1
punnet fresh blueberries, or 2 cups of frozen
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 300°F. Butter and flour the pans.
- In a microscopic bowl, mash bananas. Zest the lemon instantly over the bowl, add lemon juice, and mix. Space aside.
- In a medium bowl, sift flour, baking soda and salt. Add the nutmeg and jam aside.
- In a vast bowl, mix melted butter, white sugar and mild brown sugar. With an electric mixer, beat in eggs one at a time unless the mix is mild and fluffy. Add the banana mixture to the vast bowl and mix. Alternate adding flour mixture and buttermilk unless fully integrated.
- Toss washed blueberries with a pinch of flour. (This can support them no longer sink within the batter). Add to the batter and mix.
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Bake within the center of the oven for about an hour, or unless a fork comes out neat.
Let the cake frigid earlier than serving. (Additionally, you will moreover quilt it with plastic wrap, and eat it the next morning.)
Cristina is a author, prepare dinner, and day job actual property developer. She studied literature, holds an MFA in Fiction Writing, and performed the Neatly-liked Delicacies direction at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. She lives in Jersey Metropolis with her husband–a Frenchman she met in Spain–and their candy sad cat, Minou. Practice her writings, recipes, publications and photography at theroamingkitchen.com.