Banana cake

Do you have overripe bananas at home? Don’t throw them they can be useful in baking a moist and delicious cake. A banana cake can be served with tea, coffee, juice, milkshake, smoothie, etc. Scroll down to check a banana cake recipe.

Ingredients you need:

• 3-4 overripe bananas
• 1 cup of brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup of vegetable oil or melted butter
• 2 cups of self-raising flour
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract/ essence
• 1/4 cup of chocolate chips
• a handful of groundnuts (optional)

In place of self-raising flour, you can use all-purpose flour and 1 tablespoon of baking powder

Recipe:

• Mash 3-4 bananas in a bowl using a fork
• Beat 4 eggs in a separate bowl add them to the mashed bananas
• Add 1 cup of vegetable oil/ melted butter and 1 cup of brown sugar
• Mix the ingredients into a smooth batter
• In a separate bowl, sieve 2 cups of self-raising flour
• Add 1 teaspoon of salt and 1/2 a teaspoon of baking soda to the flour bowl. Mix the ingredients well
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.
• The batter should be thick but well mixed.
• Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract and mix well
• Add 1/4 cup of chocolate chips and a handful of groundnuts but this is optional.
• Meanwhile preheat the oven to 350F
• Grease your mini loaf tin with butter or vegetable oil and dust it with self-raising/ all-purpose flour
• Pour in your batter let it settle and even
• Cut a banana into thin pieces and place them on top and sprinkle some groundnuts on top
• Put your tin in the oven to bake for 1 hour, halfway through cover the tin with aluminum foil to prevent it from getting burnt before it gets evenly baked
• Use a toothpick or a fork to check if it is fully baked. The fork or toothpick should come out clean.
• Let your cake cool for about 30 minutes before removing it from the tin
• You can now cut your cake and serve it with a glass of juice, milkshake, smoothie/a cup of tea or coffee. Bon appétit