Look on the internet and you're sure to find plenty of recipes for banana cake. It's probably one of the easiest cakes to make with satisfying results. It's pretty much my go-to recipe and was the very first cake featured on this blog back in 2012! So I must have got better at making it since 2012, so here's what makes a perfect recipe for me:
1– Get that butter out of the fridge early enough. Your butter should be nice and soft at room temperature so that it creams well with your sugar. I tend to measure the required amount out first and cube it into smaller pieces so that it doesn't take all day to soften.
2– Speaking of sugar, leave the caster sugar alone. Use soft brown sugar instead. I find it produces more of a rich flavour that goes well with banana.
3– Blend the bananas! If you can blend your bananas instead of mashing with a fork the taste of the banana is spread uniform throughout the cake.
4– Make it pretty. Loaf cakes can look fashionably rustic or just down right dull. Decorate with some walnut pieces to really finish off.
115g unsalted butter, softened
140g soft light brown sugar
2 eggs
230g self-raising flour, sieved
4 ripe bananas
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ground nutmeg
handful of walnuts to decorate
Pre-heat your oven to 170°C/ 340°F.
Cream together the softened butter and sugar. Whisk your eggs in a separate bowl and then add to the mixture. With a hand blender puree your bananas into a consistent pulp and then stir into the mixture until well combined.
Sieve the self-raising flour into a separate bowl, followed by the cinnamon and nutmeg. Add these dry ingredients to the mixture and combine well.
Spoon your mixture into a pre-greased 24x10x6 cm loaf tin. Once done, scatter your walnut pieces over the top of the mixture. Bake for 40 minutes at 170°C, then reduce the temperature to 150°C and bake for another 35 minutes.
Leave the banana cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Serve in thick slices.
Result: Yum.
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