Serves 10-12

Bobby's Brilliant Banana Cake

This cake is really easy to prepare, but is light and delicious and will probably make you famous!

Ingredients

  • 125 g butter
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 3 ripe Dole Bobby bananas, mashed
  • 1 egg beaten
  • 1½ cups self-raising flour
  • ¼ cup milk
  • Your favourite icing

Method

  1. Heat the oven to a temperature of 170°C
  2. Melt the butter, sugar, and vanilla in a medium-sized saucepan.
  3. Remove from heat.
  4. Add mashed bananas and stir through until combined - transfer to a large bowl.
  5. Add egg and mix in well.
  6. Stir in flour, add milk and fold until just combined
  7. Pour the mixture into a small, greased round cake tin 18 - 20cms
  8. Bake for approximately 30-40 minutes.
  9. Take the cake out of the oven and cool it in the tin for 10 minutes before taking it out of the tin. Then, cool on a wire rack for another hour before icing with your favourite flavour.

You can decorate the cake as soon as you have iced it with chocolate sprinkles, hundreds and thousands, or mini marshmallows like we have done. Have fun!

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