This weekend they hosted a cake and recipe book sale to raise money for BucksVision, a charity supporting people with sight impairment within Buckinghamshire. As an optometrist I work with people with vision impairment on a daily basis so this is a charity very close to my heart. It was a great honour to be able to combine my love of baking with helping a great cause. I made the vanilla cupcakes I posted recentley, as well as my many times tried and tested recipe for banana cake. They both seemed to go down a treat. This banana cake is the easiet cake recipe I have ever made and it is a fantastic way to use up those overripe bananas that seem to always end up sitting on my kitchen counter looking rather unattractive! Plus it tastes amazing with a cup of tea!
Banana Cake
(prep 20 mins, baking 1 hour 10 mins)
(the banana cake is the one in the middle, at the back!)
Ingredients
4oz butter
4 oz sugar (demerera works best)
8oz self raising flour (sifted)
2 eggs
3 very ripe bananas
2 tablespoons honey or golden syrup
Method
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees fan
- Grease a 2lb loaf tin
- Mash the bananas
- Cream together the butter, sugar and eggs. This can be done with a wooder spoon or with an electic whisk on a low setting. If using an electric whisk mix it until the ingredients are just combined but not too smooth
- Stir in the mashed bananas
- Mix in the flour
- Stir in the honey or golden syrup
- Scrape the mixture into the loaf tin
- Bake for 40 minutes
- Lower the temperature to 150 degrees and cook for another 25-30 minutes until a skewer comes out clean
- Leave to cool on a wire rack
- Enjoy with a cup of tea!
- Enjoy with a cup of tea!