Amitabha's Kitchen Chronicles

In our kitchen, the role of the baker is generally handled by my better half, D. On some rare occasions, I do sometime try out my hand on the bakery stuff. And when a cake lover comes for dinner, its worth the effort. The recipe was inspired by another formidable creative genius who had posted a thought and had enough people oodling over it. So I ended up making an impromptu 'banana walnut almond coffee and cocoa' cake. The cake lover certified that it has indeed turned out nice and I had to put aside my low carb diet for a day. Ingredients (to be at room temperature): 3 very ripe bananas ½ cup toasted walnut ½ cup almonds 2 teaspoons of Coffee 2 tbsp of Cocoa powder 1 ¼ cup unbleached flour (Wheat flour ~ aata) 1 tsp baking soda ½ teaspoon fine salt 2 large eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla essence / ½ tsp vanilla extract ½ cup unsalted butter + bit for pan 1 cup sugar Recipe: Soak the almonds in boiling water for about 5-10 mins. Once cooled, peel the almon