Simple Banana cake : Fathers day special

Serves:4

Preparation time : 15 minutes

Cooking time  : 50-60 minutes.

Who doesn’t love a super moist banana cake with a strong coffee? I do. so I go for this easy to prepare less complicated banana cake if I fancy a quick home made cake.

Ingredients:

1. Over ripe banana- 2
2. Butter (in room temperature)- 140 gram
3. Self rising flour- 175 gram
4. Sugar- 100gram
5. Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
6. Egg – 2
7. Vanilla extract – ½ teaspoon

Method:

   

1.       Mash the bananas.

2.       Mix flour with baking powder.

3.       Beat butter, sugar, egg and vanilla extract (Adding one at a time and beat well before adding the next ingredient).

4.       Gently fold the flour and add bananas and mix well.

5.       Transfer the cake mix to a grease proof cake tin (a loaf shape one is better if you have one).

Baking:

Preheat oven for 15 minutes. 

Oven setting: 

Fan oven 160C/325F/Gasmark3 for 30 minutes.

Then in 150C /300F/Gasmark2 for the next 20-25 minutes.

Once the cake is ready to transfer this to a wire rack and allow this to cool down. Serve with a strong coffee. Happy fathers day.

P.S : Yet another Banana cake cooking method with spices. You can try that one too if you fancy a spicy banana cake.