Banana fairy cakes

Banana fairy cakes

Good Food reader, Mita Patel, shares her recipe for these cute, energy-giving, choc-banana treats

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 25 mins

Freezable

Freeze un-iced

Method

  1. Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Line a bun tin with 8 paper cases. In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and sugar with a pinch of salt.
  2. In a separate bowl, beat the egg, melted butter and milk for 20 secs; add the mashed banana and beat for a further 5 secs until everything is nicely mixed.
  3. Pour the banana mix into the flour and fold everything together. Once it is almost combined, add 85g of the white chocolate - the mixture will still look a little lumpy. Spoon the cake mix into the paper cases and bake for 18-20 mins until golden and risen, and a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
  4. Meanwhile, melt the remaining white chocolate over a pan of barely simmering water. Allow to cool a bit, then spread on top of the cakes. Add a couple of slices of banana and sprinkle with cinnamon.
Try

Tip

Kids will love these. To stop your banana slices browning, brush with lemon juice, or use dried bananas if you're baking ahead.

PER SERVING

256 kcalories, protein 5g, carbohydrate 34g, fat 12 g, saturated fat 7g, fibre 2g, sugar 22g, salt 0.47 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, July 2011.

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  • 03 July 2011

    Beth rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Didn't add any white chocolate on top. These are lovely though.

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  • 12 November 2011

    Cooknook commented on this recipe

    I made these fairy cakes just as it says to make them and they were delicious ! Everyone loved them will definately be making them again.

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  • 23 February 2012

    Hannah S rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Yummy! I adapted as didn't want to use white chocolate to be a bit healthier... I added chopped pecans and topped with pumpkin seeds. I doubled the mixture and had to use muffin tin and muffin cases (don't have a fairy cake tin!), but still made 18 nicely. Very pleased and hubby LOVES them.

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  • 30 April 2012

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  • 08 May 2012

    ilaria rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    i used dark chcolate drops instead of white chocolate (my 8 years old desn't like the white one!!!) and coated with extra dark and some dried bananas chips on top and it was a great success! I want to try with the white one tho!

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    29 May 2012

    C76 commented on this recipe

    Really yummy and so simple to make. I made 15 fairy cakes, used SR wholemeal flour and milk chocolate as that's what was in my cupboard! I put milk chocolate and chopped nuts on the top. Definitely will make thes again, especially when I have a mushy brown banana sat sadly in the fruit bowl!

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    27 June 2012

    Ria commented on this recipe

    Really delicious , I thought they may be too sweet with the banana and white chocolate but they weren,t at all , a great way to use over ripe bananas.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 25 mins

Freezable

Freeze un-iced

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PER SERVING

256 kcalories, protein 5g, carbohydrate 34g, fat 12 g, saturated fat 7g, fibre 2g, sugar 22g, salt 0.47 g

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