Banana cake

Ever since I bought my lovely new Kenwood cake mixer, I've wanted to bake things that involve mixing - and not by hand. Over-ripe bananas meant that banana cake was the logical choice. I looked for a quick and easy recipe. The idea was to ice it with lemon icing when finished. That requires one vital, but missing, ingredient: icing sugar. Plan B: serve warm with ice cream. Yum!

Banana cake

Ingredients

• 125 g butter, softened
• 175 g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2-3 mashed bananas
• 2 T boiling milk
• 1 t baking soda
• 225 g flour
• 1 t baking powder
  

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 22 cm round cake tin.
2. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and mashed bananas.
3. Mix the boiling milk and baking soda together and then add to the mixture. Sieve flour and baking powder together and add to mixture.
4. Pour mixture into tin and bake for 45 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Ice with lemon icing when cold.