With The Great British Bake Off back on TV, I have been seriously inspired to do a lot more baking recently…this is great for my taste buds but not so great for my waist line. I love the bake off and how quintessentially british the show is, I have always been into baking, whether it be helping my mum when I was younger or looking through the pages of the vast baking books on the shelf.
I noticed that I had a bunch of bananas just sitting on the side getting browner and browner, I'm really picky with when I will eat them and the minute they start browning there is no chance: so I decided to make a banana cake, one of my all time favourites!
Chocolate and Cinnamon Banana Cake
Ingredients.
250grams Self Raising Flour
110grams Butter
225grams Caster Sugar
2 Large Eggs
3 Large Ripe Bananas
50grams Cocoa
1tsp Vanilla Extract
11/2tsp Cinnamon
Method.
- Before I start any recipe I always make sure I have all my ingredients out and ready to go, along with everything I will need. For this recipe I used, a mixing bowel, scales, a potato masher, a loaf tin, a spatular, a wooden spoon and all my ingredients ready to go.
- Start by preheating the oven to 180C or Gas mark 4.
- In a large mixing bowel, mix together the sugar and the butter until light and fluffier in texture. I used a wooden spoon for this as my whisk has broken, however it is quicker and easier to use an electric whisk.
- Once the butter and sugar are combined add in the flour, cocoa, eggs, mashed banana, cinnamon and vanilla extract and combine. It doesn't matter if there are some lumps of banana in the mixture, I actually quite like it when there is but you can hardly tell once the cake has cooked.
- Grease a loaf tin ( I find that you don't need to line the tin as this cake always comes straight out if the tin has been greased however it's personal preference), and pour in the cake mixture.
- Place in the oven on a middle shelf and bake for 45 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the cake comes out clear.
- Take out the oven and leave to cool in the tin before transferring onto a wire rack to cool completely, that's if you can wait that long before tucking in.
