Iced banana cake...

I'm a big fan of banana cake and have made it many, many times in different forms - as regular readers of my blog will know!  If you missed it first time around you can read about my other efforts here - Banana muffins and Banana loaf cake. Today I made a banana cake in a square cake tin rather than a loaf tin, and I drizzled some icing on top once it had cooled.  The end taste is pretty much the same, but as I was planning to take this to work I thought I'd enhance the presentation!

This is the recipe I used this time.  All quantities are doubled, as I made this in an 8in square tin - but you could easily halve the quantities and use a 2lb loaf tin instead.  I opted for the bigger cake as I had a lot of bananas to use up!

4 very ripe bananas, mashed with a fork
2 large eggs
300g self-raising flour
2tsp baking powder
110g butter
200g sugar

The whole lot goes in a big bowl and is whisked together with an electric hand mixer before pouring into the cake tin.  An hour in my fan-assisted oven at 160C did this cake just nicely.  I left it to cool before drizzling over some plain glace icing.

As always, I made a gluten-free version, so I used white mix in place of flour, along with gluten-free baking powder.  The white mix I'm using at the moment is supplied by Glutafin - it's great for Coeliacs as it's fortified with calcium and folic acid.  You can read about the product here in more detail if you'd like to know more - one of my readers enquired about this mix the last time I mentioned it.

The butter I used on this occasion was Aldi's "Beautifully Butterly" - their version of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" - simply because the last food shop I did was at Aldi!  Generally I buy whichever butter spread is on offer.

After my husband and I had completed the necessary "quality checks" and were satisfied that the cake was fit for consumption by others (not that I ever really doubted it would be) I split the cake in two and boxed them up, ready for one to go to work with me. 

Every now and again I like to take in treats for my colleagues!

Best Wishes
Debbie