Going Bananas

Banana Cake

We've got 3 leftover ripe bananas in the fruit bowl so I made this cake today:~

100 grms (4oz) soft margarine
100 grms (4oz) sugar
150 grms (6oz) self raising flour
tsp cinnamon
tsp mixed spice
1 ripe banana
2 medium eggs
100 grms (4oz) sultanas
7 chopped glace cherries

Set the oven temperature moderately hot to about 180 degrees Celsius
Mix together margarine and sugar
Add the mashed banana and mix well
Add eggs and beat well
Sieve flour and spices and fold in to the mixture
Add sultanas and glace cherries
Spoon mixture into a 1lb loaf tin
Bake for about an hour - test the cake by inserting the sharp point of a knife through the centre. If the knife comes out clean - it's done.,

Allow it to cool and enjoy ~ ~

Easy Apple Saucepan Cake

The wind is bringing the apples down from the trees like nobody's business. I made this cake today from a few windfalls - well actually I made two, but we ate most of the best one -

Easy Apple Saucepan Cake

4 oz (100g) butter or margarine

4 oz (100g) sugar

1 cooking apple

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 egg (beaten)

8 oz (250 g) self raising flour

heaped tsp ground mxd spice

tsp ground cinnamon

8 oz (250g) dried mxd fruit or sultannas

6 or 7 glace cherries (chopped)

Line and grease a 1 lb loaf tin.

Peel and slice the apple. Microwave for 2 minutes in a suitable dish. Mash the apple up with a fork.

Put the butter, sugar and vanilla essence into a medium sized saucepan and stir over a low heat until melted.

Remove from heat.

Add the beaten egg, apple, sifted flour, spices, dried fruit and cherries and stir well with a wooden spoon.

Scoop the mixture into the loaf tin and bake on a medium heat - about 180 degrees for about an hour.

To test whether it's done, insert the blade of a sharp pointed knife. If it comes out clean, it's done.

Allow to cool on a cooling rack

Slice, butter and enjoy.