Banana cake//

Ingredients
160g Butter, room temp
3/4 Cup Firmly packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups Mashed banana (over ripe)
2 Tbs Hot milk
1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
1 Cup Plain flour
2/3 Cup self raising flour

- Preheat oven to 180 deg (fan forced) line and grease a cake pan, I prefer to use a loaf tin
- Beat butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy

-Beat in eggs one at a time

- Stir in mashed banana, the recipe called for 1 1/2 cups, but I just use whatever I have on hand, normally anywhere between 3-5 bananas will do perfectly
- Warm up the milk in the microwave for about 20sec then mix in the bicarb soda and pour into banana mixture and stir
- Stir in sifted flours in two batches

- Spread into pan
- Bake for around 40mins, or until cooked through

- Allow to cool in pan for 5mins, before removing and placing on a wire rack to cool completly

- I have used a basic cream cheese icing which I will link here. But the cake tastes great just on it's own as well
- It is really important to crumb coat your cake when icing, which is simply spreading a thin layer of the icing over the cake and allowing it to set and form a kind of 'crust' which will allow all the crumbs to set in. This way you will not pull up crumbs when icing your cake!

- Then you can spread the remaining icing over the cake

Tips
- Always allow cake to rest 5mins before removing from pan
- Crumb coating a cake will always give it a nicer finish

Much love,