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Banana Cake

By Chelsea's team of cooks, added 25 May 2011

Difficulty Medium RecipePrep time20 minutes RecipeCooking Time 45-50 minutes

  • Banana Cake

Banana Cakes are so popular in NZ, try this delicious moist and oh so eatable version... you will find yourself allowing bunches of bananas to go over-ripe just so that you can make it.

Recipe Rating: 5

Ingredients

1 cup Chelsea White Sugar
100g butter, melted
3 bananas, mashed with a fork
3 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup low fat milk
150ml plain or fruit yoghurt (apricot works well)
2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder

Lemon Icing
25g butter or margarine
2 cups Chelsea Lemon Flavoured Icing Sugar
1-2 Tbsp hot water

Method

Preheat oven to 160°C. Spray a 20-22 cm round spring-form baking tin with non stick baking spray. Line the base with baking paper.
Beat the sugar and melted butter and eggs until thick and creamy. Add the mashed bananas and beat well.
Heat the milk in a small microwave proof bowl or jug in the microwave until nearly boiling (approx 1 minute).
Stir the baking soda into the milk then stir this into the banana mixture.
Add the yoghurt, flour and baking powder. Mix well and pour into the prepared cake tin. Bake for 45-50 minutes until the cake is cooked in the middle and just pulling away from the edges of the tin. Cool in tin for 5 minutes then release the spring sides and cool completely on a wire rack. When completely cold, ice with either lemon icing or cream cheese icing.

Lemon Icing
Melt the butter (microwave for about 30 seconds). Beat in the Lemon Flavoured icing sugar to make a fluffy icing, add a little hot water at a time until a spreadable consistency. Spread over the cooled cake.

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Overall rating

Recipe Rating: 5

5 ratings, 604 people added this to their Favourite Recipes.

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  • 5

  • 5

    Best banana cake ever.

  • 5

    Only Banana cake recipe I ever use now. All perfect and people ask me for the recipe.

  • 5

  • 5

    Best banana cake recipe I've tried. Other recipes can be too dry. Family's favourite, too.

  • 5

    perfect

  • 5

  • 5

    Ive tried about 6 different Banana Cake receipes and this is the best!