Bread(less) and butter(less) pudding

I've just discovered a new dessert! Haha. Tastes like bread and butter pudding.. only without the bread and without the butter. Okay, this creation was unintentional. I mean, I.. wasn't concentrating on what I was doing and ended up with a higher liquid to flour ratio than needed. Thus, I didn't end up with cake; I ended up with pudding! Haha. I was wondering why it was still very moist after a long while of baking. -__-


Banana and date pudding
Makes a medium slab and 3 mini bundts

2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp cinnamon
1/4 cup sugar
125gm dried dates, chopped and soaked in 1 cup water
2 medium/small ripe bananas, mashed
2 eggs, lightly beaten
4 tbsp milk
2 tbsp corn oil
2 cups banana and honey yoghurt

Preheat oven to 180C.

Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and sugar together.
Mix egg, milk, oil, yoghurt, dates (including the water from soaking) and banana together.
Combine liquid mixture with flour and mix till evenly combined.
Pour into lined/greased baking tins.

Bake slice tray for 50mins, and 30mins for the 3 bundt tins.

Serve immediately, by itself or with some vanilla ice-cream. Reheat in microwave when required. This is best served hot/warm, I tell you!!

Perfect hole for a scoop of vanilla ice-cream! Hehe


When it's hot, it's a gooey-ish mixture. But when it cools.. it's not as gooey. I don't like it when it's cooled though. It doesn't taste as good. It tasted best when hot out of the oven, with the crisp edges and goey banana and date centre. Mmm. Sort of reminds me of Asian cakes made with glutinous rice flour or so. :D Yum yum yum..

Banana cinnamon and date muffins

I had this urge to bake muffins.
Since class starts at 2pm, I had time to bake before uni. :D

Hehe. I purchased 2000 muffin casings when I was in Singapore. It'll last me a while.. Haha. I bought 2 different floral designs. I only used one design for these muffins.


Banana cinnamon and date muffins
Makes about 24 standard muffins

2 cups plain flour
1 cup quick cooking oats
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp bicarbonate soda
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp vanilla extract
8 tbsp milk
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/2 cup banana and honey yoghurt (I used Yoplait formé banana and creamy honey)
2 tbsp vegetable oil

4 small ripe bananas, mashed
13 dried pitted dates, chopped and soaked in 1/4 cup water

Preheat oven to 175C.

Sift and mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and sugar in a large bowl. Add in oats and mix.

In another bowl, mix egg, milk, yoghurt, banana, dates + the water, vanilla extract and oil until combined.

Add the wet mixture into the dry mixture and mix with a wooden spoon. Your batter should be not too thick and not to thin.

Scoop batter into greased muffin pans or line them with baking paper.

Bake for 18mins. Remove from oven and onto cooling rack.


Again.. they stuck to the casings. Sigh. I should remember to grease the casings next time.


Oh well. They're moist with banana and dates and are cinnamon fragrant. These satisfied my baking and cinnamon craving. :D

Now to get ready for uni.

Update: Ok. They're easier to peel after a few hours (less sticks to the bottom). :)
Update: Overnight, they don't stick at all. :D

Banana and date cake

I decided that I had to bake it tonight, whatever it was I was making. Haha. The bananas were overly ripe and I wanted to use them up fast. I couldn't decide whether to make cookies or cake. But I ended up making a cake as I threw the ingredients together whilst deciding. :)


Mmmm. The aroma of bananas and cinnamon baking in the oven :D


Banana and date cake

2 cups self raising flour
1 cup cooking oats
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp cinnamon

2 eggs, beaten lightly
1 cup milk
1/4 cup corn oil

1 cup chopped dried pitted dates soaked in 1/4 cup water
2 overly ripe bananas, mashed

Preheat oven to 175C.
In a mixing bowl, sift flour, baking powder and sugar, and then mix in the oats.
Form a well in the centre, and add in milk, eggs and oil.
Mix with a wooden spoon until even.
Add in dates (it doesn't matter if it hasn't soaked up all the liquid) and mashed banana. Mix until uniform.
Pour/spoon batter into a lined or greased slice/baking pan. (I lined a slice tray with baking paper. The tray was approx. 30cm x 20cm x 2.5cm in size)


Bake for 30mins or until cooked.


Remove from oven and allow to cool.
Slice and serve.

Lining with baking paper not only prevents the cake from sticking (for easier removal without the use of oil/butter), but also prevents overflow by giving the cake additional 'walls' to rise upon. Gotta love the baking paper!


The cake was moist, banana and cinnamon fragrant and was not too sweet. It goes great with a cup of hot jasmine tea (I love my tea!) or with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream (especially good for this hot Summer weather). Too bad most of the dates sunk to the bottom though. :/