Banana Spice Cake – Maria Middlestead

Ingredients

• 1½ cups water
• 1½ cups chopped dates
• 2 large free-range eggs
• 2 large or 3 small ripe bananas
• 125 ml (½ cup) mild cold-pressed oil*
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract*
• 1¼ cups rice flour*
• ¾ cup raisins
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
• 3 tsp mixed spice
• 1½ tsp baking soda
• 1½ tsp gluten-free baking powder
• ¼ cup flaked almonds
• 4 Tbsp fruit-only apricot jam*
• 2 Tbsp water