Ingredients
125g of salted butter
185g of castor sugar
1 tsp of vanilla
2 very ripe bananas
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
100ml of milk
180g of self-raising flour
Method
Preheat the oven to 180C.
Place 125g of salted butter and 185g of castor sugar in an electric mixer and beat until creamy. Add a teaspoon of vanilla and keep beating. Peel 2 very ripe bananas - yielding about 180g of flesh - and mash them with a fork. Add them, along with a whole egg, to the butter and mix well.
In a small bowl, mix 1/4 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda with 100ml of milk until it is dissolved, then add to the banana mixture. Sift 180g of self-raising flour and fold into the mixture.
Use butter to grease a small loaf or cake tin, then pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 45 minutes. It's done when a skewer pushed into the middle of the cake comes out dry. Cool a little before turning out onto a cooling rack.
To serve
When completely cool, dust the top with a little icing sugar.
Keeps well and is great toasted.
