I have quite a few recipes for banana cakes as my boys love bananas in cake as do I because it enables me to reduce the fat amount in the recipe! This is a new recipe I was trying out, with a few alterations…
Ingredients:
- 3 ripe bananas
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp cinnamon sugar
- 100g light brown sugar
- 75g butter
- 250g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 3 eggs
Streusel Topping:
- 30g sugar
- 75g flour
- 25g soft butter
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 80g chocolate chips (optional, could be raisins or nuts etc)
- 1 tbsp cold water
Preparation:
- Preheat oven to 190C/ 170Fan/ Gas 5, 10mn before baking and grease or line a 20cm/ 8″ round cake tin
- Mash 2 bananas in a small bowl together with the lemon juice and the tbsp of sugar. Set aside
- Gently heat the butter and sugar together in a saucepan until it is just melted. Transfer into a bowl and leave to cool slightly
- Sift the flour, soda and cinnamon into a large bowl and make a well in the centre
- Beat the eggs into the cooled butter/sugar mixture, one at a time until well combined then pour into the well of flour and mix thoroughly by hand
- Gently stir in the mashed banana mixture.
- Prepare the streusel topping by mixing all the ingredients together
- Pour half of the cake batter into the prepared tin. Thinly slice the 3rd banana and arrange over the half. Sprinkle a third of the streusel mixture on top
- Cover with the remaining batter and top with the rest of the streusel topping
- Bake in the preheated oven for 45 to 50mn, until well risen and a toothpick comes out clean
- Allow to cool completely in the tin before turning out. Sprinkle icing sugar over the top