Spelt and Coconut Banana Loaf with Raw Cashew Cream

There always bananas at our house but no one ever eats them and eventually they always go brown. But rather than ceasing to buy them, every week we go through the same charade. So that when they do go brown, we get to eat cake.

It's kind of healthy enough that you can pass it off as breakfast or any meal really. Here I've teamed it with cashew cream and strawberries. It's great on its own, with ice cream or toasted with butter.

The Cashew cream is lovely with seasonal fruit or a myriad of other fruit based cakes.

The addition of the lemon juice to the milk makes the cake light and moist. 

SPELT AND COCONUT BANANA LOAF

INGREDIENTS

2 1/2 Cups of spelt flour

3/4 cup desiccated coconut

1/2 cup of raw honey

1 tsp of bicarb soda

1 1/3 cup milk*

juice of half a lemon

1 cup of mashed banana's (2 large or 3 small bananas)

140g coconut butter

2 eggs (organic, free range & local) lightly beaten with a fork

* I use Bio Dynamic milk or Raw organic milk (sold as bath milk in australia due to pasteurising law's) if you wish to make this cake dairy free use a nut milk.

DIRECTIONS

Preheat the oven at 180 degrees celsius and line a tin with baking paper, I use a 19 x 19 cm deep square tin. Melt the honey and the coconut butter on very low heat, set aside. Add the lemon juice to the milk, set aside.

Place the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl and add all of the wet ingredients, mix with a wooden spoon until well combined. Pour into the tin and bake for 45 minutes - 1 hour. Test with a metal skewer, it will come out clean when it's cooked.

RAW CASHEW CHANTILLY CREAM

INGREDIENTS

1 Cup of raw cashews soaked overnight or min 4 hours

juice of 1/2 lemon

2 tbsp of raw honey

1/2 vanilla pod

1/2 cup of  filtered water

DIRECTIONS

Drain and rinse the cashews, scrape the seeds out of the vanilla pod (you can put the empty pod into your honey jar or sugar jar for added flavour.....lovely in tea).  Put all of the ingredients into the blender except for the water, put it on high speed adding the water a little at a time until you have a very smooth and creamy consistency. It will take a couple of minutes.

Enjoy!

We did!