Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake

Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake

Use black bananas. In fact, if they turn black, put bananas into freezers to keep for when you're ready to prepare. Once defrosted they will be pulp like and mix into cake batter much more easily giving you a cooked consistency like mud cake. Sometimes requires a little extra time in the oven. Don't panic - just keep testing with a tester and take out when ready. Can be iced with a chocolate ganache. Is delicious once cooled but the flavour really kicks in after 24 hours.

Ingredients

Serves: 10  125g butter (at room temperature) 185g caster sugar teaspoon of vanilla essence 2 very ripe bananas (to about 180g of flesh) 1 egg 1/4 teaspoon bicarb soda 100ml of milk 180g self raising flour

Directions

Preparation:20min  ›  Cook:45min  ›  Extra time:7min  ›  Ready in:1hour12min 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.2. Blend butter and caster sugar until creamy. Add vanilla and

keep beating.3. Peel very ripe bananas and mash them with a fork (if

defrosted bananas as in the tips section, just squeeze them into batter and beat). Add them, along with the egg, to the butter and mix well.

4. In a small bowl, mix bicarb soda with milk until dissolved, then add to the banana mixture. Sift 180g of self-raising flour and fold, gradually, into the mixture.

Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake

5. Grease a small loaf tin, then pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 45 minutes or so. It's done when a skewer pushed into the middle of the cake comes out dry.

6. Cool a little before turning out onto a cooling rack. When completely cool, dust the top with a little icing sugar. Keeps for up to a week if kept in a sealed container in the fridge or cool pantry.

Favourite Banana Cake Recipe – with cute video

June 12, 2013Miss Cinti @ My Poppet 13 Comments Filed under COOKING, KIDS, TUTORIAL - Food

We love making and eating Banana Cake at home, it’s quite quick and very tasty! Sometimes I think the bananas get ignored in the fruit bowl on purpose just so they can over ripen, and then the only option is to bake a cake.

Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake

I’ve tried a few recipes, but this one simplified from Charmaine Solomon’s Family Recipes (sadly out of print) is a favourite because it requires only a few ingredients that I usually have on hand, and is pretty fool proof. In fact I often mix up the steps or just throw everything in together (not recommended for best results) and it still works ok. It’s so easy even a 3yo can make it!

Emma loves baking, and on this particular day (a few months ago) she wanted to host her own cooking show “just like on the television” and specifically asked me to video tape her in action. It’s super cute, even if I do say so myself.Read on for recipe and super adorable cooking demonstration…

Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake

 Ingredients:125g Butter softened3/4 cup caster sugar1 tsp vanilla essence2 eggs2 ripe bananas185g (about 1.5 cups) SR flouricing sugar for dustingPreheat oven to 180 CCream Butter and sugar.Add vanilla and then eggs one at a time.

Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake

Beat wellMash bananas then add to the mixture.Sift in flour and fold through mixture.Pour into greased (or silicone) loaf tin.Bake for around 25min or until skewer comes out clean.Allow to cool then dust with icing sugar if desired

Dig in! I guarantee it won’t last long.

Watch how simple it is to make, and look out for the pronunciation of Vanilla Essence – too funny 

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Banana Cake RecipeA fruity and moist banana cake that all the family will love.

Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake

  

INGREDIENTSBANANA CAKE

3 medium bananas, ripe if possible (approx. 400g / 14oz)

300g / 10oz self-raising flour150g / 5oz soft unsalted butter

150g / 5oz Demerara sugar2 medium eggs (at room temperature)

80g / 3oz walnuts or sultanas2 teaspoons lemon juice

2 tablespoons olive or vegetable oilCAKE TOPPING

125g / 4½oz full fat soft cheese75 g / 2½oz butter

200g / 7 oz icing (confectioners) sugar

Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake

Half a teaspoon of vanilla essenceNutrition information per portion

Calories533

Protein6g

Carbs58g

Sugars36g

Fat31g

Saturates14g

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 50 minutes

DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Easy

FREEZE? No

SERVINGS: 8 - 10 slices

COOKING EQUIPMENT: 1 large bowl to mix the ingredients.900g loaf tin (see picture below). Size (measured at the top) is 25cm by 11cm and 6½cm deep.Small amount of greaseproof baking paper.

Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake

Some of the ingredients  for Banana CakePREPARATION

The butter must be soft. The best way to achieve this is to measure out the butter an hour or so before it is needed and leave it at room temperature. If this is not possible, break up the butter with a fork and beat it for a minute or so. If all else fails, put it in a bowl and float the bowl in warm water.

Turn the oven on, setting it to 180°C / 350°F / Gas Mark 4 (170°C / 325°F for fan assisted ovens).

Next, grease the loaf tin with margarine or butter, and line the tin with greaseproof baking paper. It's not essential to cover 100% of the tin but make sure that it lays as flat as possible on the inside of the tin.

Recipe by David Marks.

COOK'S NOTES FOR BANANA CAKE

Our Banana Cake Recipe gives you a fruity and moist cake that all the family will like. We show you how to top it off with a creamy delicious topping. And of course we lead you through the process with step by step pictures.

RECIPE INSTRUCTIONSSTEP 1

Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake

Peel the bananas and mash them with a fork until they are really mushy. It's easier if the bananas are ripe but not essential.

Chop up the walnuts reasonably finely (click picture on right to enlarge). Sultanas can be used as an alternative if you have a nut allergy.

STEP 2 Place the butter and Demerara sugar into a mixing bowl and blend together with a fork. The idea here is to mix the two ingredients thoroughly and at the same time incorporate as much air into the mixture as possible.

Mixing with a fork in a figure of eight shape will help to incorporate air into the cake mix.

STEP 3 Stir in the bananas and chopped walnuts or sultanas and mix thoroughly. Add one egg and sift in half of the flour. Mix thoroughly in a figure of eight. Add the remaining flour, egg and lemon juice then mix again in a figure of eight.

Now the magic touch! Add the two tablespoons of olive or vegetable oil and mix thoroughly again in a figure of eight with a fork. The oil will keep the cake moist.

Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake

STEP 4 Pour the mixture into the loaf tin, smooth it level and place in the oven for 50 minutes. Go to the next step to make the topping.

After that time take it out and test that it is cooked by piercing the cake with a fork and if it comes out clean it's cooked. If not cook  for another 5 minutes and retest (see below).

Some people have commented that this banana cake takes 1 hour 15 minutes to bake so don't be concerned if it's the same for you. Different ovens and slightly different ingredients are probably the cause of this. Just keep checking every five or ten minutes.

When you remove the cake out from the oven, take it out of the tin and place it on a wire rack or something similar. This will stop the cake sweating and getting damp - it really does make a difference.

Allow the cake an hour or so to cool down before icing it.

STEP 5Make the icing by pouring the icing sugar, soft cheese, butter and vanilla into a bowl and mixing it all together with a fork.

Spoon the icing onto the cake and spread it evenly with a knife. Pop a couple of cherries or walnuts on the top if you want to decorate it.