This weekend called for only one thing - Banana Cake. My favourite recipe is a basic banana bread recipe of Nigella Lawson's, although I adapt it because I never have dark rum, saltanas or walnuts in my house.
So here's what I used - everything just came from store cupboard:
175g plain flour
150g sugar (white caster or any type of brown sugar is also delish)
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarb of soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 large eggs
125g unsalted butter, melted (i do this in the microwave)
3 largish (approx. 300g), over-ripe bananas, mashed
50g dark chocolate broken up into smallish bits
1 tsp vanilla extract
Loaf tin
1. Preheat the oven to 170'C (fan)
2. Mix togther the flour, baking powder, bicarb and salt in a medium sized bowl, just using your hands or a wooden spoon
3. In another bowl, mix together the melted butter and sugar by hand, until blended (this should only take a few seconds - another reason why I love this recipe is that I don't have to get my electric mixer out!!)
4. Next beat in the eggs, one at a time
5. Then tip in the mashed bananas, and stir together
6. I then went off piste, and added those chunks of chocolate and stirred them into the mix
7. Scrape into a loaf tin (mine was non-stick but I still buttered the sides), and put into the oven
8. Cook for 1 hour, or until a skewer or knife comes out clean.
You may need to cover the top with tin foil about 45 minutes into baking, just to prevent the top getting too brown (oops I forgot to do this - so decided to slap some cream cheese icing on the top!)
Voila - the finished result, jazzed up by a bunch of Muscari from the garden.
Wishing you a scrumptious Sunday x
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