Passover Banana Nut Cake

Ingredients

• 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 pecans, finely chopped

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 325.

2. 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. 3

   Stir together cake meal, potato starch and cinnamon. Fold gradually into banana mixture. Add nuts.

4. 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. 5

   Bake in a 10 inch tube 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.