Food & Drink

Banana Cake Recipe

Matt Kemp from the Underground Cookery School shows you a simple and easy recipe for a banana cake that you can whip up anytime at home. Add a helping of creme or custard and enjoy a delicious, moist banana cake, just like mom used to make. Enlarge

Banana Cake Recipe

Matt Kemp from the Underground Cookery School shows you a simple and easy recipe for a banana cake that you can whip up anytime at home. Add a helping of creme or custard and enjoy a delicious, moist banana cake, just like mom used to make.

Prep:
25m
Cook:
25m
Total:
50m
Serves:
1
Temp:
160° c  -  320° f

Ingredients

  • 340 g plain flour
  • 1 banana
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • vanilla extract
  • 2 tsp poppy seeds
  • 150 g sour cream
  • 170 g muscovado sugar
  • 2 lemons
  • icing sugar

Step 1: Make the Cake Mixture

Take 170g diced soft butter, 170g muscovado sugar and whisk in a mixer until there is a nice soft, fluffy consistency. Chop your banana, add to the mixer. Also add 4 egg yolks, 150g sour cream, some vanilla essence, a pinch of salt and 2 tsp poppy seeds. Continue to mix. Add 180g plain flour table spoon by table spoon. Add your mixture to a bowl.

Step 2: Soften the Mixture

Add 4 egg whites to a mixer and mix. Add some caster sugar during the mixing process once the eggs have fluffed up. Once you have a nice glossy texture, add a few teaspoons of the whites to the cake mixture and fold in.

Step 3: Bake the Cake Mixture

Pour the banana bread mix into the baking tin. Add to the oven at 160C for about 20-25 minutes.

Step 4: Make the Icing

Zest a lemon by grating some lemon peel into a bowl. Add some icing sugar, some lemon juice and whisk until there is a thick consistency. Slice and serve with some custard or creme poured on top.