Beautiful Banana Cake!

This is a really easy recipe for a deliciously moist banana cake. It was given to me by a friend and I use it all the time!

Photo sourced from womensday.ninemsm.com.au

Ingredients

125g unsalted butter, softened
330g (1.5 cups) caster sugar
2 (1 cup) very ripe bananas, mashed
1 tspn vanilla
2 large eggs
100ml buttermilk (or 1/3 cup milk and 3/4 tspn white vinegar)
225g (1.5 cups) SR Flour
1/4 tspn salt
1/2 tspn bicarb soda

Method

Preheat the oven to 170 degrees celcius. Grease and line 22cm plan.

Place the butter, sugar, banana, vanilla and eggs in bowl and beat for 2 mins. Add buttermilk and pulse to combine.

Sift the flour, salt and bicarb soda together in a large bowl. Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture and process to combine (only just).

Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 50-60 mins or until skewer comes out clean.



Cream Cheese Icing


Ingredients

90g cream cheese, softened
45g unsalted butter, softened
210g (1 2/3 cups) icing sugar
1 1/2 tspn lemon juice


Method

Beat cream cheese and butter with electric beater until creamy.

Add sifted icing sugar and beat until smooth.

Add lemon juice and beat to combine. Spread over cooled cake.