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Iced Banana Cake Veg CD CBF 90mins plus cooling
Makes 1 x 18cm/7 inch cake Cold Vegetarian Fruit Nuts Cakes Baked Fayre Teatime
Ingredients 450g/1lb Over ripe Bananas 2 Eggs, beaten 75g/3oz Butter 175g/6oz Granulated Sugar 200g/7oz Self Raising Flour 1/2 teasp Salt 1/4 teasp Bicarbonate of Soda 75g/3oz Chopped Walnuts For the icing 25g/1oz Butter 2 teasp cocoa powder 175g/6oz Icing Sugar A few drops of Vanilla Extract
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 180C, 350F Gas Mark 4 and lightly grease and flour an 18cm/7 inch cake tin.
2. Reserve 1/2 of 1 banana for the icing (see below) and place the rest of the bananas in a mixing bowl. Mash until smooth. Set aside.
3. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy then add the eggs and bananas and beat until smooth.
4. Stir in the flour, salt and soda and mix thoroughly.
5. Quickly mix in the walnuts then pour into the prepared baking tin.
6. Bake for 60 to 75 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Turn out and cool on a wire rack.
7. Once the cake has cooled, p lace the butter and cocoa powder in a small saucepan. Heat until melted. Meanwhile, mash the reserved banana until very smooth.
8. Add the melted butter mixture to the mashed banana and beat well, then add the icing Sugar and a few drops of vanilla extract. Beat thoroughly until very smooth. Use to ice the top of the cake once it's cooled.
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