A few weeks ago we spent one Sunday evening gathering walnuts. Two big trees and under them a carpet of leaves and walnuts. Literally, it was difficult to take a step and not crush any of the nutty treasure. When harvesting walnuts the whole family should take part. It soon turned, however, out that this activity is rather unexciting and our children's help was infinitesimal. I think that lack of motivation played a large part. Unlike us, our children don't like walnuts. Nonetheless, we managed to do it and for the next few days a significant part of our big living room was occupied by drying walnuts. Now packed in transparent sacks, they are waiting for winter.

Due to the abundance of this nutty treasure, I started to look for recipes with walnuts. For the first dishes I prepared morning porridge, salads and cakes. Today, inspired by the "arabeskawaniliowa" blog, I propose a classical combination of bananas, walnuts and chocolate. This set of ingredients puts me in mind of late autumn, when it is difficult to get seasonal fruits.

Ingredients:

100g of butter

320g of sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar

3 big bananas

340g of flour

1 teaspoon of baking powder

1 teaspoon of baking soda

a pinch of salt

2 tablespoons of cocoa

125g of minced walnuts

Heat the oven up to 180C.

Cover a cake tin with some baking paper. Sift the flour with baking powder, baking soda and salt. Cream the butter with sugar and vanilla sugar to make a smooth paste. Add the egg and whisk it thoroughly. Add blended bananas, mix well and divide the mixture into two equal parts. Add the cocoa to the first part, stir and pour into the cake tin. Put the crushed walnuts onto the cocoa dough and then pour a layer of the light dough on top of it. Bake for 35 minutes until the cake is golden. You may decorate the cake with glazed chocolate and walnuts.

Enjoy your meal!