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Recipe of Banana Cake with Fresh Pistachios
List of Ingredients
Instruction
How to Decorate Banana Cake

For a long time, bananas and baked goods didn’t exist in the same dish for me. The idea of ​​baking banana pulp seemed strange, to say the least – perhaps because I’d never been a fan of dried bananas and expected a similar flavor from baked bananas.

It was this Banana Cake with Fresh Pistachios that reconciled me with bananas as a baking ingredient. More than that: this Cake won me over with its banana flavor and the perfect balance of banana sweetness and pistachio savory.

I also really like that this muffin has significantly less sugar than similar baked goods. This means fewer empty calories and more nutrients, such as potassium, magnesium, vitamin B6, and dietary fiber. And a more satisfying taste experience.

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Banana Cake with Fresh Pistachios

healthy and delicious

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Ingredients

3 eggs
150 g softened butter
220 g all purpose flour
100 g brown sugar
3 bananas – it would be great to get bananas with black dots, they are more sweet and soft for the receipe
a pinch of sea salt
30 g pistachios, salted or not, I prefer second one
50 g fresh sunflower seeds

1 tbsp brown sugar for sprinkling

Method

Making Dough

1. Preheat the oven to 200 °C.
2. Prepare dish for baking 10×18 cm. I usually bake this cake in a adjustable metal baking frame, which I line with baking paper.
3. In a large bowl beat the butter and sugar thoroughly until the mixture turns white.
4. Then add the eggs one at a time, beating the dough thoroughly each time.
5. Peel two bananas, mash them and add them to the dough. Mix with a mixer until smooth.
6. Add flour mixed with salt and beat with mixer until smooth and incorporated.
7. At last add a half part of pistachios and sunflower seeds, stir with spoon until smooth.

Assembling

1. Pour half of the dough into the dish.
2. Put third peeled banana on top and the second half of the dough on it. This way, you will get a banana circle on the cut side of the cake.
3. Smooth the surface of cake, sprinkle with sugar, pistachios and seeds on top slightly pushing them into the surface.
4. Put the cake in the oven for 40 minutes.

How to Decorate Banana Cake

You can decorate the Banana Cake with Fresh Pistachios in a different way too.

To do this, when pouring the dough into the dish, don’t place the third banana inside the dough. Instead, spread the dough out completely and smooth it out. Cut the third banana in half lengthwise. Place both halves, cut side up, on top of the dough, just look at the photo below:

Sprinkle brown sugar over the banana slices and sprinkle chopped nuts and seeds between the bananas. Then place the cake in the oven and bake according to the recipe.

This version of decorating banana cake looks very festive.

Conclusion

From November, 2025:
I published this recipe already six years ago, and looking back, I can share a few observations: I think the local grocery store keeps a special case of overripe bananas just for me. Because I bake this Banana Cake With Fresh Pistachios at least once a week. And not just bake it, but bake it with double the ingredients.

I think that’s the best testament to how successful this recipe is. So, don’t forget to bookmark it and print it out for your home cookbook. I’m sure it will come in handy!