Tag: banana

Banana cake

Line a bread tin and set the oven to 160ºc. Poppy first made this cake from a recipe she found. A couple of small changes, and suddenly a new favourite!

  • 140g softened butter (room temp)
  • 140g caster sugar
  • 2 large eggs, beaten
  • 140g sr flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 2 very ripe bananas – mashed

Whip the butter and sugar together and add the eggs. fold in the flour, baking powder and bananas.

Get the mix into the oven as quick as you can to give the soda as much opportunity to make bubbles in your cake as you can . Cook for about 30 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean. Let it cool a fe minutes in the pan then turn out.

If you want to decorate the top you can add a little icing and or banana chips, or a little chocolate. it doesn’t need it though..

Banana & Seaweed loaf

3 very ripe bananas, peeled & mashed smooth.
1/3 cup melted butter
1 teaspoon sodium Bicarb
2 tsp dried seaweed flakes
3/4 cup soft brown sugar
1 large egg, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1  cup of white SR flour
1/2 cup brown flour

Mix the butter and smushed banana. Beat in the bicarb, egg, seaweed,  and sugar, then flour.

Bake in a 4×8″ lined bread tin for 45 mins at 170c

 

Banana Nut muffins

These are Deird’s favourite muffin on here. They’re best made with really ripe bananas- ripe to the point of heading for the bin. If you have old bananas like that, make these, don’t bin the bananas!

1 cup all-purpose flour
1  teaspoons baking soda
big pinch of salt
2 overripe bananas
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup veg oil
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
a pinch of nutmeg
1/4 cup pecans, chopped (can replace with choc chips if you’re avoiding nuts)

Preheat oven to 200C.

Mash the 2 bananas with a fork. Add the mashed bananas with the other ingredients in to a bowl and mix together. (Add the nuts last). Put into muffin papers- filling nearly to the top of the paper, and sprinkle a little sugar on the top.They should rise well during cooking, so that they are doubled in hight, with a nice dome-top to them.

Should make about 6 or 7 muffins.