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Beautifully Moist Banana Cake
Serves 8
Easy
Total time:
Really nice moist banana cake which is always a hit with anybody coming round for a cup of tea, so much so, I always hide a bit....
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- 450g/1lb of Bananas (better when they are starting to go brown)
- 255g/9oz of Self-Raising Flour
- 283g/10oz of Caster Sugar
- 113g/4oz of Margarine
- 2 Eggs
- Few drops of Vanilla Essence
- 1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- Filling
- 140g/5oz butter, softened
- 280g/10oz icing sugar
- 1-2 tbsp milk
- Strawberry Jam (Hartleys Best I use)
Method
step 1
Preheat oven to 180C/fanstep 2
Mash the bananas in a bowlstep 3
In a separate bowl, put in the eggs, caster sugar and margarinestep 4
whisk or mix for about a minstep 5
add flour and bicarbonate of soda and mixstep 6
and vanilla and bananas and mixstep 7
divide into 2, 15cm round cake tins lined with grease proof paperstep 8
Place in oven for 25 mins on middle shelfstep 9
When cooked leave for 5 mins to cool before transfering to wire rack to cool completlystep 10
Once cooled, mix butter, milk and icing together, once mixed add a nice thick layer to one half and a nice layer of jam to the other half and place together.
