Banana Cupcake

This simple recipe is the basis for all kinds of muffins with variations. For example, you can make a dough, put plums or apricots on top of it and bake to make a wonderful fruit pie. Or you can arrange the dough into small tins, and you get small cupcakes. The author, an American woman who grew up in Brooklyn, assured us that, in fact, this is not a cupcake at all, but a banana bread.

Ingredients

• 3-4 ripe bananas
• 2.5 cups flour
• 1 cup grape seed oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup shelled walnuts
• 3/4 cup sugar
• juice and zest of one lemon
• 3/4 cup orange juice
• 2.5 tsp baking powder
• 5 drops of vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp salt

Directions

1. Peel and mash the bananas with a fork. Chop the walnuts into small pieces.
2. Beat eggs with sugar and salt, add vanilla extract, pour in oil in a thin stream, continuing to beat until smooth.
3. Sift flour with baking powder. Alternately add flour, banana puree, orange juice and lemon juice in portions to the egg / butter mixture, stirring well each time. Add zest and nuts.
4. Preheat oven to 180 ° C. Line the baking dish with baking paper (you can use either a 26 cm round dish or two 10x20 cm rectangular dishes). Place the dough in a mold.
5. Bake the cake for about 1 hour. Check the doneness with a wooden stick. Cool the cake in the pan for 15 minutes, then place on a wire rack.