Tahini Banana Snack Cake

Name: Tahini Banana Snack Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1½ cups (7½ ounces), all-purpose flour; ½ teaspoon, salt; ½ teaspoon, baking soda; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; ⅓ cup, tahini; 1¼ cups (8¾ ounces), sugar; 2 , large eggs; 1 cup mashed, ripe bananas (2 to 3 bananas); ¾ teaspoon, vanilla extract; ¼ cup, whole milk; 2 teaspoons, sesame seeds

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Dense, moist banana bread is great. But tender, fluffy banana snack cake is something else again. And while we were working on transformations, we wanted to give our cake an interesting new flavor profile.

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Banana and peanut butter is a classic combo, but for this cake we decided to get nutty flavor from sesame tahini. To give our cake a light structure, we creamed softened butter and sugar, which incorporated air into the batter. Adding the t...

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