Banana Cake
This Banana Cake is a favourite in our house and gets made quite a lot. This recipe uses 3 brown bananas but you can make it with any number of bananas you have. The rule is 2 oz of flour/sugar/butter and one egg per banana.
Tia's tip
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If you are using chocolate make sure you get it on top of the cake as soon as it comes out of the oven
Ingredients​
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3 over ripe bananas
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6oz/ 175g Self Raising Flour
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6oz/ 175g Brown sugar
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6oz/ 175g Butter
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3 eggs
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10 cubes of Chocolate (optional)
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What do we need?
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Weighing scales
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Tablespoon
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Fork
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Mixer or Wooden Spoon
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Large Mixing Bowl
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Small Mixing Bowl
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6 inch round cake tin or a loaf tin
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Greaseproof paper
What do we do?
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Turn the oven on 180oC or Gas mark 3/4
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Grease and line your cake tin or loaf tin
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Measure the flour, sugar and butter into the mixing bowl
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Crack the eggs in one at a time, watching out for egg shell
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Whisk with a mixer or stir with the wooden spoon until the mixture is light in colour
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Peel and mash the banana in the small bowl with a fork
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Stir the banana into the cake mixture
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Pour into the cake tin
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Cook in the oven 18 - 20 minutes for a cake tin or 20-30 minutes for the loaf tin
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When the cake is cooked remove from the oven
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If you are using chocolate put them straight onto the cake now, see picture below. The heat from the cake will melt the chocolate and then you can spread it with a spoon.
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