Monday, October 01, 2007

Banana Cake


I'm always on the hunt for quick, easy and simple Banana Cake recipes. And I think I may have found one. I always have bananas 'hanging' around our place, but as you know, they tend to turn brown pretty quickly if not eaten on time. What I tend to do is place the browning bananas in the freezer, complete with skins. They aren't good for eating once you do that but boy, are they god for baking!! When I want to use them, I take them out the freezer about an hour before hand.

In this recipe I used 4 small-medium sized bananas.

I used my mix master for this recipe, only stirring in the mashed bananas by hand.

The recipe stated to cook in a 'little hotter moderate oven' for an hour, but I found my cake, cooked in a small square tin, baked in around 25 minutes. you've been warned!


*Taken from the CWA's (Victorian division) 'Cookery Book', published 2003*

Ingredients
125g butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups SR flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp mixed spice
pinch salt
2 tbs milk
1 tsp bicarb of soda
3 ripe mashed bananas

Method
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, and then sifted dry ingredients.

Add the soda, which has been dissolved in the milk. Lastly fold in the bananas.

Bake for 1 hour (!!) in a little hotter than moderate oven.

When cold, ice with lemon icing.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

I'm drooling.

Red Dirt Mummy said...

Oooh... another one to try! Thanks.

Kiki said...

Gee I love a good banana cake! Last week I baked some superb banana muffins with lemon cream cheese icing and froze a heap of them thinking I'd be sneaky and ONLY eat one a day :-)

Over the weekend I found a great recipe for banana cake using sour cream so I'm going to give it a whirl in the next day or so. I'll probably blog about it as I haven't done anything on food in agggggges.