Whole grain fruit cake
Description
Homemade baked goods for tea. You can add any spices to this pastry if desired—cinnamon, nutmeg, or cardamom—by mixing them into the dough. Serve with tea or coffee.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare all the listed ingredients. Optionally, replace the vinegar with lemon juice or citric acid diluted in water (1/4 tsp).
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Step 2
Mash the banana pulp with a fork in a deep bowl, grate the apples on a fine grater without peeling them, and add to the resulting banana puree.
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Step 3
Add granulated sugar, a pinch of salt, and vanilla sugar to the fruit mixture, pour in the sunflower oil, and combine the ingredients with a spoon.
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Step 4
Add the sifted flour mixed with baking powder to the resulting mass and mix the ingredients thoroughly until uniform.
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Step 5
At the final stage, add vinegar (lemon juice) to the dough and mix well again.
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Step 6
Place the dough into a baking dish (for a silicone mold, simply sprinkle with flour; for a metal one, you need to grease it with oil beforehand) and put it into a preheated oven. The baking temperature for the fruit cake is 180 degrees, and the baking time is 40–45 minutes.
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Step 7
Check the cake's doneness with a wooden skewer or toothpick. Let the baked cake cool slightly and serve. Optionally, you can dust the cake with powdered sugar.