Banana Cake

 Frozen Bananas are best to use - just freeze all your over ripe bananas and use in banana cake

 Bananas that are thawed out from being in freezer

 Mashed banana

 Banana added to sugar and butter that has been creamed

 Banana that has been mixed into the butter and sugar

Flour being added to the banana mixture

Banana Cake that is cooked

BANANA CAKE WITH LEMON CREAM-CHEESE FROSTING

110g softened butter

110g caster sugar

2 eggs

3 medium bananas, mashed

230g self – raising flour

2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda

1/3 cup milk

Frosting

60g cream cheese

30g softened butter

1 teaspoon grated lemon zest

1 ½ cups icing sugar

Preheat oven to 205 c.  Grease a 20cm square cake tin.

Cream butter, add sugar and beat, then ad eggs on at a time, creaming thoroughly.  Fold in the mashed banana, then fold in the sifted flour alternately with the combined soda and milk.

Place mixture in the prepared cake tin and bake for approximately 30 minutes.  When cake is cold, ice with cream cheese frosting.

To make the frosting, beat the cream cheese, butter and zest in a small bowl until light and fluffy, then gradually beat in sifted icing sugar.