As you will already have guessed, banana cake is a firm favourite… could do it in my sleep so it was high time to revamp it a little: in comes oranges!

Ingredients:

• 125g unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 2 tsp grated orange rind
• 125g caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 medium ripe bananas, mashed
• 60ml fresh orange juice
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 190g self-raising flour
• 35g plain flour
• ½ cup of: whatever takes your fancy, walnuts, sultanas… choc chips for boys in this case…. next time, I would like to try cranberries

Preparation:

• Preheat oven to 180°C/160°fan/ Gas 4 and lightly grease a 9″/23cm bundt tin
• Cream the butter, rind and sugar in a medium bowl until light and fluffy

• Add the eggs one at a time beating thoroughly after each addition
• Add the banana and stir until combined

• Add the sifted soda, baking powder and flours to the mixture with the remaining ingredients and fold in by hand until just combined
• Add the juice and chosen dried extras

• Spoon into the prepared tin

• Bake for 45 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean

•  Allow the cake to sit for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool

• Dust with icing sugar