Baking Recipes - Banana Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Makes 1 cake

• 125 g/4 oz butter or margarine

• 125 g/4 oz caster sugar

• 2 eggs

• 125 g/4 oz self-raising flour, sifted

• 2 bananas, mashed

• icing sugar, to dust

Filling:

• 50 g/2 oz ground almonds

• 50 g/2 oz icing sugar, sifted

• 1 small banana, mashed

• 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice

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Method:

1. Line and grease two 18 cm/7 inch sandwich tins.

2. Cream the fat and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, adding a tablespoon of flour with the second egg. Fold in the remaining flour with the mashed bananas.

3. Divide the mixture between the prepared sandwich tins. Bake in a preheated oven, 180°C (350°F), Gas Mark 4, for 20-25 minutes until the cakes spring back when lightly pressed. Turn out the cakes on to a wire rack to cool.

4. To make the filling, mix the ground almonds with the icing sugar, then add the banana and lemon juice and mix to a smooth paste.

5. Sandwich the cakes together with the filling and dust with icing sugar.