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jon laa wrote on February 24th, 2009, 10:55 pm

Oh my goodness. The banana cake is awesome. I baked it, but it is my parents who salvaged the baking. It was browning on top with the inside was still wet and rummy but I had to go for class so my parents handled it. And I came back to see some awfully yummilicious banana cake sitting on the dining table.

The recipe is from chubbyhubby:

21?4cups (295g) flour
2tsp baking powder
2tsp bicarbonate of soda
1?2tsp salt
1cup (210g) sugar
240g unsalted butter
4 eggs, beaten
4 bananas (roughly 375g), mashed
5Tbs milk
1tsp pure vanilla essence

Sift flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a medium bowl. Cream butter and sugar until creamy white. Add beaten eggs a little at a time. Beat well after each addition. Add vanilla, milk and mashed bananas. Fold in flour and blend well. Pour mixture into muffin cups and bake at 180?C for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.

I used self-rising flour, so I skipped the baking powder and bicarbondate of soda. I misread and used 395g of flour so I increased the portion of everything according to my estimation, probably more butter and banana (800g) than listed above. Less eggs, my maid spilled some egg mixture. I am going to lay layers of mashed banana instead of mixing them together next time. I will like to have something wet oozing out of my cake.

That’s probably why I love my parents. They got brains!

ETA: the recipe is somewhat for muffins but I baked them in a tin. Bake for 45 to 60 minutes, probably on the lower rack instead of the mid rack. The temperature was around 160?C, with lots of adjustments according to how the cake was baking.