Banana cake
Cook Time1 hr 30 mins
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 ½ cups self raising flour
- 1 teaspoon bicarb soda
- 1 cup castor sugar
- 4 eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 ¼ cups mashed banana (approx 5 large ripe bananas)
- 1 cup oil
Icing
- 100 grams packaged cream cheese
- 60 grams butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 tablespoon apricot jam
- 2 cups icing sugar
Instructions
Cake
- grease a 23cm square slab pan, cover base with paper and grease paper
- sift flour and soda into a bowl
- make a well in centre of flour mixture
- stir in sugar, eggs, banana and oil, and mix to a smooth batter
- pour mixture into prepared pan
- bake in oven for 1 ½ hours, or until cooked when tested
- let cake stand in pan for 10 minutes, turn onto wire rack to cool
- spread icing over cooled cake
Icing
- beat cheese, butter, essence and jam in a bowl with electric mixer until smooth and creamy
- gradually beat in sifted icing sugar and beat until light and fluffy
