Gluten-free October cakes in praise of a Goddess!

Banana and Walnut Cake

influenced by a Nigella Lawson recipe

See a few days ago!

Preheat oven to 180ºC/360ºF. Grease and line a large cake tin. I like round cakes! My oven has no reliable thermometer. I put it on the highest setting and lower accordingly to prevent it burning. The aim is to have a cake that when pressed, the indent bounces back! Be prepared for about 45 minutes to one hour of baking time!

Cream together 125g butter and 125g brown sugar, add

2 mashed bananas now out of their brown skin jackets. Beat in 2 or 3 eggs and about a teaspoon or less of vanilla essence and about one teaspoonful or more of baking powder.  Add about 250g ground almonds or more and some milk plus about 120g whole walnuts but you could use broken ones!

Pour the mixture into the tin and bake.  See above!

Banana, Walnut, Pear, Ginger Cake

influenced by a Nigella Lawson recipe

Preheat oven to 180ºC/360ºF. Grease and line a large cake tin. I like round cakes! My oven has no reliable thermometer. I put it on the highest setting and lower accordingly to prevent it burning. The aim is to have a cake that when pressed, the indent bounces back! Be prepared for about 45 minutes to one hour of baking time!

Cream together 125g butter with125g brown sugar. Add

2 mashed bananas not in their brown skin jackets. Beat in 2 or 3 eggs and about a teaspoon or less of vanilla essence plus a teaspoon or more of ground ginger. Add one teaspoonful or more of baking powder.  Add about 250g rice flour plus about 125g ground almonds. Adjust the mixture with some milk. Add 120g whole walnuts but you could use broken ones! Add one conference pear in small pieces, previously peeled and cored. Eat the peel!

Pour the mixture into the tin and bake.  See above!