Denise says:

I first made this recipe last year during Pesach and it was such a success, I thought that I must share it with you. Even if you are not one for baking most of the year, Pesach is the time I know many people make an effort. To buy ready made biscuits and cakes for the entire eight days is a little extravagant when you know the little darlings will finish them off in 5 minutes! These little squares uses every day Passover ingredients so they if you are suddenly short of a nourishing snack they can be prepared in no time at all.

It is brilliant for filling up the children as a dessert in lunch boxes or as a snack when the effect of matzah has just not filled the gap. Packed with the goodness of bananas and dates these squares keep up to one week in an air tight container or will freeze.

I have made this in a square tin, but they can also be made in muffin tins or individual cup cake cases.

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 35 minutes
Makes: 16 squares

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon vegetable oil – for greasing the tin
3 eggs
100g caster sugar
3 bananas – peeled and mashed
100g dates – roughly chopped
100g fine matzah meal or cake meal
200g chopped walnuts
Zest of 1 orange
Juice of 2 oranges

Garnish
Cut 1 orange into slices
Icing sugar

Method

1)Pre- heat the oven to 180 C/ 350 F/ Gas mark 4.
2)Grease and line a 22 cm/ 9 inch square tin.
3)Beat the eggs and sugar together until thick and light in colour.
4)Stir in the bananas, dates, walnuts, matzah or cake meal, orange juice and zest of an orange.
5)Pour the mixture into the prepared tin.
6)Bake for 35 minutes or until the batter has set.
7)While still warm cut into squares.

To serve the stylish way: Dust the plate with icing sugar and garnish with slices of fresh oranges.