#RecipeWithaPulseliveTwist: The ultimate bundt-style spiced Banana Bread

Pulselive is here to help you overcome those fears. No one can ever go wrong with Banana Bread, guaranteed. Why? Because there's no secret technique to mixing these ingredients, you'll still get an amazing cake if you just throw everything together and mix.

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Ingredients

3 or 4 ripe bananas

3 eggs

3 cups all-purpose flour

3 teaspoons baking soda (In Kenya it's packaged as bi-carbonate of soda)

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1 1/2 cups sugar

1 1/2 cups margarine (melted)

1 tablespoon Cardamoms spice

2 teaspoons vanilla essence (optional)

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Method

As we said, you can easily throw all these ingredients into a bowl, mix, bake and still have a beautiful banana bread in the end.
But if methodology excites you, here's a simple way to mix the ingredients. Start with a large bowl, peel the bananas and mash them.
When bananas are well mashed, add sugar and mix until combined. Next add the melted margarine, vanilla essence if you like and the magic spice, ground cardamoms.

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4.Add three eggs to the mixture then add the flour bit by bit as you mix to combine.

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Baking Tip: Maintaining a 1:1 ratio for your ingredients helps in getting perfect cakes everytime you bake. For example, in this recipe, we used 3 cups flour, 3 eggs and 3 teaspoons of baking soda. We also used 1 1/2 cups of sugar and 1 1/2 cups of margarine. Flavouring agents are normally up to you and your taste buds.

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5.Spread some margarine on your bundt cake tin and dust with some flour before you pour the batter inside. You can use any other shape of a cake tin.

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6.Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes. Bake the cake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when dipped through the cake.

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This spiced Banana Bread is perfect as a breakfast snack or even dessert, we suggest you try it with some ice cream.

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