Description
This is an easy banana cake with a cream cheese icing recipe. So easy and delicious, it will soon become a favourite in your home too. Perfect to use up those bananas going to waste in the fruit bowl.
Ingredients
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Banana Cake:
- 2 cups self-raising flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup (115 g) butter, softened
- 1 cup castor sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1/4 cup milk, plus a little more if needed
- 3 ripe bananas
- 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
Cream Cheese Icing:
- 40 g butter, softened
- 60 g cream cheese
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup icing sugar
- Chopped walnuts for the top of the icing
Instructions
Banana Cake:
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius (fan-forced).
- Grease and line, a standard round cake tin with baking paper and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl mash together the bananas with a fork until smooth, set aside.
- In another mixing bowl sift the flour, salt and bicarb soda, set aside.
- In a stand mixer add butter and sugar, then cream together at a high speed until smooth (approximately a few minutes).
- Turn the mixer down to low speed, gradually add eggs one at a time, mix well and add bananas in gradually.
- At a low speed add flour and milk alternately, a third at a time, until mixed through.
- Pour into a prepared cake tin and bake in the oven for 45-50 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean. This may need a little longer depending on each oven.
- Once cooked, take it out of the oven, flip out onto a cake cooling rack, and cool.
Cream Cheese Icing:
- In a bowl sift the icing sugar, set it aside.
- In an electric mixer add cream cheese and vanilla and beat until smooth.
- Add butter and mix for a couple of minutes.
- Add sifted icing sugar and continue beating until smooth.
- Spread the icing on top of the cooled cake and sprinkle on some chopped walnuts. Enjoy!!!
Notes
Icing: If you’re finding the icing is too thick, add a little dash of milk and continue beating until you have the desired consistency.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: Serves 8