I am not the world's greatest baker of cakes and have always wondered what I was doing wrong! My cakes inevitably turn into biscuits and are very often inedible !!!
However, today I had some old bananas that needed to be turned into banana cake so I thought I would dig out a recipe and hope for the best --- and what do you know, they worked !!!
Here is the recipe ... slightly modified to include some cooked apples I also had !!
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
3 small ripe bananas
1 tsp bicarb of soda
50 mL milk
1/2 cup sugar
1 and a 1/2 cups of self raising flour
1 cup of cooked apples
Cream butter and sugar
Add eggs separately, beating well
Mash bananas and mix in
Dissolve bicarb in milk
Add in the flour and the milk mixture alternately
Add in the cooked apples
Bake on gas mark 5 for 40 mins or til cooked
I baked them in a muffin tin - I also added on another 10 mins cooking time as they were a little moist (probably because of the apples). I've never added the bicarb to milk before but I think that made all the difference ?!
Yay - they are nice - and edible too - oh Happy Day !
