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
