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Sesame, Date and Banana Cake
Ingredients
  • subheading: For the Cake:
  • 3 tablespoons/50 grams tahini
  • ⅓ cup/75 milliliters orange juice (from 1 large orange)
  • 5 ounces/140 grams medjool dates, pitted and quartered (about 8 dates)
  • 2 to 3 very ripe peeled bananas (8 ounces/240 grams), thinly sliced
  • 2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
  • ½ cup/113 grams unsalted butter (1 stick), at room temperature and cut into ¾-inch/2-centimeter pieces, plus extra butter for the pan
  • ¾ cup/150 grams granulated or superfine sugar (caster sugar)
  • 2 large eggs, beaten
  • 1⅔ cup/200 grams all-purpose flour (plain flour), sifted
  • 2½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • subheading: For the Tahini Cream-cheese Icing:
  • ½ cup plus 1 tablespoon/130 grams cream cheese, preferably at room temperature
  • ½ cup plus 1 tablespoon/130 grams mascarpone cheese, preferably at room temperature
  • 3 tablespoons/35 grams lightly packed light brown sugar (soft sugar)
  • 3½ tablespoons/55 grams tahini
  • subheading: For the Caramelized Bananas:
  • 1 ripe peeled banana, cut into ½-inch/1-centimeter-thick slices
  • 1 tablespoon Demerara sugar
  • 1½ teaspoons date syrup, for drizzling
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