Basic Tea Cake

Ingredients:

• 2 and 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
• 1 and 1/4 cup oatmeal
• 1 and 1/4 cup olive oil
• 2 ripe bananas
• 1 and 1/4 cup orange juice
• 6 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/3 tablespoon salt (I used sea salt, if using table salt, then you use very little salt)
• 1/4 tablespoon cinnamon powder
• 1/2 cup chopped almonds

Note: You can also add 1/4 cup of flax-seed as well.

Directions:

Mix the flour, oatmeal, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon powder in a bowl. (Add in the optional flax-seed as well here). This is your dry ingredients.

In a separate bowl, beat the eggs, add in the sugar, orange juice. Mash the bananas in another bowl then add them into this bowl along with oil. Mix well. This is your wet ingredients.

Slowly, start adding in the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix in the clockwise direction. If the batter is too stiff, just add in more orange juice and mix well. Leave it for 20 minutes.

Grease a baking dish with oil, and add in the batter. Sprinkle the chopped almond on top as well. Leave in the oven for 1 hour at 350 degrees, or until knife comes out clean.

Ready to serve