Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • 125g of salted butter
  • 185g of castor sugar
  • 1 tsp of vanilla
  • 2 very ripe bananas
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
  • 100ml of milk
  • 180g of self-raising flour

Instruction

  • <p>Preheat the oven to 180C.</p> <p>Place 125g of salted butter and 185g of castor sugar in an electric mixer and beat until creamy. Add a teaspoon of vanilla and keep beating. Peel 2 very ripe bananas - yielding about 180g of flesh - and mash them with a fork. Add them, along with a whole egg, to the butter and mix well.</p> <p>In a small bowl, mix 1/4 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda with 100ml of milk until it is dissolved, then add to the banana mixture. Sift 180g of self-raising flour and fold into the mixture.</p> <p>Use butter to grease a small loaf or cake tin, then pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 45 minutes. It's done when a skewer pushed into the middle of the cake comes out dry. Cool a little before turning out onto a cooling rack.</p> <p>To serve&nbsp;</p> <p>When completely cool, dust the top with a little icing sugar.</p> <p>Keeps well and is great toasted.</p>