Banana cake | Kukskitchen

Left over bananas have turned black... not sure what to do with them. I have got the perfect recipe for a banana cake that melts in your mouth..... one of the easiest cakes you can make... delivers the same gorgeous result each time.

I used my banana muffin recipe to make the cake. Bake them for an hour at 170 degrees in a fan assisted oven and VOILA your gorgeous banana cake is ready to serve. They are great served warm with a cup of tea.  

Ripe plaintain stuffed with fresh coconut | Pazham nirachathu | Kukskitchen

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Malabar cuisine is a gift from the Arab traders and French rulers to the native Zamorins and Namboodiris. This delicacy is made for the പുത്യാപ്ല , the new groom by his mum-in-law traditionally I'm told.

Skinny High Protein Banana Oatmeal Pancakes | Kukskitchen

As part of the high protein low carb initiative, I've turned my son's favourite meal in to a skinny high protein variant. There is somehting for everyone in this recipe. Protein powder for the man, banana and honey for the kid and blue berries for the female gene. Blueberries are full of antioxidants and are a brilliant support if you are trying to lose those extra few pounds.

Hope you like it!

Kaya pola | Keralan sweet plantain souffle | Kukskitchen

Kaya pola is a traditional malabar dessert made especially on special occasions like iftar. It is quick and easy to prepare and uses very few ingredients.

Chocolate and banana cake | Kukskitchen

Last few days pf school year is fun-packed and involves a lot of yummy food. I was very quick in offering to bake for every occasion possible in my little one's school: be it his last day party or garden picnic. I ended up making a chocolate and banana cake for one of them and used the recipe to make muffins for the garden picnic along with black forest berry and whit chocolate muffins. They went down well.

American pancakes - featuring banana & honey | Kukskitchen

A quick-fix yet yummy breakfast? Here is an answer- banana pancakes. Your kids would luv it and it is for grown-ups too.

Banana muffin in home made paper cup - featuring sultanas/raisins and tea!! | Kukskitchen

At work in Sheffield Teaching Hospital( I trained there), there was a private company selling yummy muffins in a rustic paper cup. I was waiting for a good muffin recipe to experiment my own paper cups.

It was the final day of a leadership course, when all of us had to choose a topic and do a presentation on it. My fellow attendees selected topics like 'obesity in kids', 'my research' etc.  I proudly chose to give a talk on Kerala, my state in India and topped it up with a recipe handout and snapshot of keralan chicken biriyani. Feeling very special myself (you know the feeling when you feel so good about urself, what ever else the others think? Yes, I had that moment), there comes another girl with a recipe to banana cake her nan used to bake. I knew it would have been yummy and she knew it too. We were divided up in to groups and she was in another group so I didnot get the recipe.

I came home and started searching for a yummy banana cake recipe. Low and behold I saw a recipe by the one and only comfort-food-queen Nigella Lawson. I knew this was it. I made a few alterations to suit my taste and cooked it for my dear friend Pravija and her daughter Riya. Here is the recipe I used.