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Banana Cake
 
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Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 1 Minutes
Ready In: 11 Minutes
Servings: 8
A good cake to use up overripe bananas. Always given good comments about this.
Ingredients:
125 g butter
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 1/2 cups bananas (mashed)
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 cup milk
2 cups self-rising flour
for the frosting
125 g butter
3/4 cup icing sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius.
2. Grease a 20cm round springform tin.
3. Cream butter and sugar and slowly add the eggs and vanilla.
4. Add the bananas.
5. Dissolve soda in milk and mix into the mixture.
6. Fold in flour with a metal spoon.
7. Cook for about 70 minutes or until the cake springs back when tapped gently.
8. Leave in tin for 10 minutes then turn out.
9. To make the icing: Cream the butter and then add the icing sugar; add the lemon to taste (I often use more as I like it really lemony!).
By RecipeOfHealth.com