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Best Banana Cake

Best Banana Cake

Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad

This Best Banana cake features in series 2 of Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard on channel 4.

Preparation Time	00 minutes
Baking Time	1 hour 15 minutes
Portions	1 loaf
Skill Level	Easy
Average Rating

Best Banana Cake Ingredients

125 grams	Unsalted Butter softened, plus extra for greasing
175 grams	Dark Muscovado Sugar (Billington's)
2	Free Range Eggs
300 grams	Plain White Flour (Allinson Nature Friendly)
1 tsp	Baking Powder
150 ml	Milk whole
3	Bananas very ripe, peeled and mashed
1 tsp	Vanilla Extract (Nielsen Massey)
1 tsp	Poppy Seeds
75 grams	Sultanas golden

Additional Ingredients

150 grams	Butter
300 grams	Golden Icing Sugar (Billington's)
	Banana Chips handful

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How to make Best Banana Cake

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Preheat oven to 180°C/ 160°C fan/ 350°f/ Mark 4. Lightly grease a 25x11cm (1ox4.5inch) loaf tin with extra butter
Cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl using an electric hand whisk, until smooth. Add one of the eggs and beat in well, then add the seconf and continue to beat well. Sift in half the flour with the baking powder and mix well. Mix in the milk then the remaining flour.
Fold the mashed bananas into the mixture along with the vanilla extract, poppy seeds and golden sultanas. Then tip the mixture into the loaf tin and level to the top with a spatula.
Bake in the preheated oven for around 1 hour 15 minutes until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean and not sticky. Cover the top with foil if it starts to brown too quickly. Allow to cool in the tin for at least 20 minutes before turning out.
For the topping, cream the butter and sift the icing sugar in using an electric hand whisk, mixing together until creamy and fluffy. Spread over the cake and garnish with the banana chips and dust with icing sugar.

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Read all reviews (1) | Average rating: 4 stars

"You naughteeeee Baking Mad People! You didn't say how addictive this cake is! I am on a wheat & gluten free diet & have replaced your flour & baking powder with gluten free substitutes (available from health food shops or large supermarkets). It works fine. Thanks. Luv to you all. ALI2 "

03-03-2012 | Author: ALI 2 | 4 stars

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