Saturday, September 19, 2009

Simple Banana Cake



My 2nd attempt at baking a cake from scratch. the 1st - a butter cake didn't turn out rite. didnt get cooked thru n was too wet. this was ok but not great. the edges were too cooked but at least the insides are good enuff. adapted this recipe from a couple of sites.....

ingredients
  • ½ cup butter
  • 50 ml milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 large bananas (ripe & ugly)
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
  • ½ cup sugar (caster was suggested...but snce i only had raw sugar....)
  • 1½ cups self-raising flour (OR 1 ½ plain flour/all purpose flour + 3 tsp of baking powder....i made a booboo of not mixing the latter into the flour before adding to mix. The Wife was totally exasperated....)

recipe
  • mix butter, sugar and vanilla with food processor (recipe called for 'creaming' the lot which i dont understand....cos all i did was to beat it too its glue-y)
  • add each egg separately, mixing well
  • mash bananas and add to mixture
  • dissolve soda in milk and add to mixture
  • add flour to mixture
  • preheat oven to 180°C
  • bake in 1 9"x5" tin at 180°C for 35 minutes or until cooked (poke to find out....i actually had it in there for 55 minutes).

i think i'm gonna have a slice for supper......

1 comment:

Aurorin said...

U have to sieve the plain flour with the baking powder added into it for 3-4 times. Not mixing only eh! Btw, the 'formula' is 1cup flour to 2tsp baking powder hor... hiaks hiaks