Banana Cake

I found the source this recipe in the NZ Women's Weekly. (Don't ask!) It makes a very moist banana cake but only needs 2 ripe bananas. Years ago I made a banana cake and added extra banana...what a disaster.

Ingredients

• 125g butter, softened
• ¾ cup caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 large, ripe bananas, mashed
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 2 tablespoons boiling milk
• 1¼ cups self-raising flour, sifted

Method

1. Preheat oven to 150°C fan bake. (This is one time when I recommend doing this at the beginning, the rest of the methos is quick to do.
2. Grease a 22cm ring cake tin.
3. Beat butter and sugar until pale.
4. Beat in eggs, one at a time.
5. Stir in mashed bananas.
6. Dissolve baking soda in boiling milk and stir into beaten mixture.
7. Fold in the sifted flour.
8. Spoon mixture into the prepared cake tin, smoothing the surface.
9. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
10. Allow to cool slightly (about 5 minutes) then remove from the tin.
11. Ice (frost) when cold with Chocolate Icing

I baked the one shown in a silicon ring mold, in a benchtop oven. I covered the top (base) with foil about half was through, so that the top element didn't burn it. In a larger oven this should not be an issue.
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