Banana cake is always good but matcha banana cake with walnuts is incredible! This is really soft, fluffy and utterly delicious cake that's perfect to enjoy with your mid-morning tea.
Matcha is a tea easily recognisable by its vibrant green hue. It's made by stone grinding specially grown young tea leaves into a powder.
It has a really distinctively grassy, flavour, so you don't need much of it to get a really delicious sponge with a green hue.
In this cake, the leafy flavours pair with the warm sponge, sweet bananas and creamy walnuts perfect to create an utterly gorgeous loaf you can enjoy hot or cold.
I like to enjoy a slice of this matcha banana cake lightly buttered with a cup of milk tea. It's the perfect mid-morning treat.
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Here's how to make this soft, sweet matcha banana cake.
Ingredients
- 2 ripe bananas (flesh wait approx 190g/6.7oz)
- 100 g (3.5 oz) demerara sugar (turbinado sugar)
- 150 g (5.3 oz) margarine
- 2 medium free range eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 200 g (7.1 oz) wholemeal flour (wholewheat flour)
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp matcha tea
- 75 g (2.6 oz) walnut halves roughly chopped, plus 7 halves for the top
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180C (160C fan, 350F).
Place the bananas in a bowl.
Use a stick blender to blend until smooth. You could also do this in the food processor, if preferred.
Add the vanilla, margarine, sugar and eggs.
Blend again.
Add the flour, matcha tea powder and baking powder.
Fold through.
Add the chopped walnuts (keeping the 7 walnut halves aside).
Fold through.
Spoon the batter into a greased and lined loaf tin and level off.
Put the 7 walnut halves on top in a line down the centre, pushing them down only very gently.
Bake for 45-50 minutes until a skewer pushed into the centre comes out clean.
Cool in the tin until firm, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Isn't the final loaf pretty?
Slice to serve and enjoy.
It's great with or without butter, but in my opinion, a cup of tea to accompany it is essential!
If you made this cake, what did you think?
For more delicious bakes, head to my cake recipes section. There you'll find lots of ideas for tempting treats, including the world's best lemon drizzle cake.
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Matcha Banana Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 ripe bananas (flesh wait approx 190g/6.7oz)
- 100 g (3.5 oz) demerara sugar (turbinado sugar)
- 150 g (5.3 oz) margarine
- 2 medium free range eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 200 g (7.1 oz) wholemeal flour (wholewheat flour)
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp matcha tea
- 75 g (2.6 oz) walnut halves roughly chopped, plus 7 halves for the top
Instructions
- Place the bananas in a bowl. Use a stick blender to blend until smooth. You could also do this in the food processor, if preferred.
- Add the vanilla, margarine, sugar and eggs. Blend again.
- Add the flour, matcha tea powder and baking powder. Fold through.
- Add the chopped walnuts (keeping the 7 walnut halves aside). Fold through.
- Spoon the batter into a greased and lined loaf tin and level off.
- Put the 7 walnut halves on top in a line down the centre, pushing them down only very gently.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes until a skewer pushed into the centre comes out clean.
- Cool in the tin until firm, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Slice to serve and enjoy.
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Yummy!
Jane says
Hi Emily,
Thanks for this delicious recipe. my kids will surely love to eat this.