Banana Cake

My sister-in-law turned me onto the best way to use overripe or leftover bananas. She first brought it over to our place for a visit and we finished it while playing board games. My favourite part of the recipe is that you always have all the ingredients at hand and this is literally the easiest recipe ever. You can throw together this cake in 10 minutes. 

(Recipe from BBCGoodFood with slight amendments)

Ingredients:

• 200 gm flour
• 100 gm sugar
• 2 ripe bananas
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3 eggs
• 170 gm butter
• Optional toppings and add-ons- anything you please and whatever you have on hand.

Method:

1. Cream the butter and sugar.
2. Mash the bananas. Not too vigorously. We love the chunks. Gives texture.
3. Add in all the wet ingredients.
4. Sift in the flour.
5. Go to town with your toppings and fillings.

I have personally added walnuts, pecans, raisins and chocolate chips into the different batters. I also love covering the top with seeds of any kind- pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, chia seeds and flax seeds.

Baking:

Using a loaf tin, in a preheated oven at 160°C for 40 mins-1 hour depending how moist you like your cake. Once a toothpick comes out clean, you can take it out.

This is a very flexible recipe so you can tweak the flour and sugar amounts or add oats. It would still turn out yummy.

Thanks to Jess for adding this to my recipe rota!