Banana cake | Kukskitchen

Left over bananas have turned black... not sure what to do with them. I have got the perfect recipe for a banana cake that melts in your mouth..... one of the easiest cakes you can make... delivers the same gorgeous result each time.

I used my banana muffin recipe to make the cake. Bake them for an hour at 170 degrees in a fan assisted oven and VOILA your gorgeous banana cake is ready to serve. They are great served warm with a cup of tea.  

A few things before we start:

• About three medium bananas would be perfect for this recipe.
• The recipe warrants yellow cavendish bananas, the usual ones you get in supermarket, but if you can't get it 'robusta' green bananas are great too.
• Whilst mashing bananas, a few chunks are ok, they add texture to the cake.
• Mix in the flour gently to the wet mix. Never use a hard hand or you will end up with a banana flavoured stone. 

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Banana cake 

Serves 10

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Ingredients

1- Sultanas / raisins - 100g
     Warm water - 100ml
     Tea bag - 1

2- Plain flour - 175g
    Baking powder - 2 tsp
    Bicarbonate of soda - 1/2 tsp
    Salt - 1/2 tsp

3- Butter - 125g
    Brown/ caster sugar - 150g
    Eggs - 2
    Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

4- Very ripe bananas - 300g excluding peels



Method

• Preheat oven to 170 degreeC
• Prepare raisins by add boiling hot water to tea bag as u would for tea. Give it a squeeze and get the bag out. Add sultanas to it and leave it for 5-10mts
• Combine / seive flour, salt and raising agents together in a bowl.
• Melt your butter. In a second bowl add the melted butter to sugar and mix well. Now add the eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition.
• Mash your bananas. Add the bananas to the second bowl together with drained sultanas and vanilla extract.
• Add the flour mix to the banana mix a little at a time, gently folding the mixture in. 
• Pour this mixture to a buttered, floured and baking sheet lined cake tin and bake at 170 degrees for 1 hour. 

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