Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Banana Cake and Cream Cheese frosting

This cake is from the Edmonds cookbook and its such an awesome recipe! My aunty always makes this cake and it is always deelish!!
Sorry, measurements are all metric system, so you gotta google it lol.

125g butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 egs
1 cup mashed bananas
1 tsp Baking soda
2 Tbsp hot milk
2 cups of flour
1 tsp baking powder

  1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  2. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  3. Add mashed banana and mix thoroughly.
  4. Stir baking powder into hot milk and add to creamed mixture.
  5. Sift flour and baking powder together and stir into the mixture.
  6. Turn into a 20cm round cake tin 
  7. Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 50 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched.
  8. Leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.
When cool, ice with cream cheese or chocolate icing.


Cream Cheese Icing

2 Tbsp butter, softened
1/4 cup cream cheese
1 cup icing sugar
1/2 tsp grated lemon rind (I just added a lemon juice instead, and then a little vanilla essence)

Beat butter and cream cheese until creamy.  Mix icing sugar and lemon rind, beating well to combine.

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