Passover Banana Nut Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 8 eggs, room temperature
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 cups bananas, mashed, ripe
• 3/4 cup matzo cake meal
• 1/2 cup potato starch
• 1 1/4 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 cup walnuts or 1/2 cup pecans, finely chopped

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325. lightly grease sides and center of a 10 inch tube pan.
• 2 separate eggs into large mixing bowls. slowly beat 1 cup sugar and salt into yolks until thick and light in color. add mashed bananas. beat for 3 minutes on high speed.
• 3 stir together cake meal, potato starch and cinnamon. fold gradually into banana mixture. add nuts.
• 4 beat whites till peaked (not dry). continue beating and make meringue by beating 1/4 cup sugar into whites 1 teaspoon at a time. fold meringue into banana mixture.
• 5 bake in pan for 70 to 75 minutes until its springy to touch. invert pan and let hang for 45 minutes. remove while warm with a thin blade.