Easy Banana Cake

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Ingredients

  • 125 g self-raising wholemeal flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 75 g sultana
  • 50 g butter, melted
  • 2 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • 3 ripe bananas, mashed

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/gas mark 4. Grease and line a 450 g loaf/1lb tin with baking parchment.
  2. Weigh the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and sultanas into a bowl and mix with a wooden spoon. Then weigh the butter, vanilla essence, egg, milk and mashed bananas and put into another bowl or jug and mix with a small balloon whisk or fork. Pour the ‘wet’ banana mixture into the ‘dry’ flour mixture and combine thoroughly with a wooden spoon.
  3. Pour the cake mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 30 – 40 mins or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove from the oven, allow to cool in the tin for 10 mins then turn out.

Recipe from bbcgoodfood.com