The easiest banana cake ever!

·Added 5 May 2026 by Tom Melhuish

DessertVegetarian

Ingredients

1 1/2	cups	plain flour
3	teaspoons	baking powder
1/4	teaspoon	salt
1/2	teaspoon	bi-carbonate of soda
1	cup	banana puree(about 2 or 3 large, ripe bananas)
1 1/3	cups	castor sugar(corrected from 12/3 per handwritten note)
2		eggs
125	g	butter(at room temperature)
100	ml	yogurt(or sour cream, milk or buttermilk)
1 1/2	teaspoons	vanilla extract

1.Preheat oven to 180°C and butter and flour a 26cm round, baking tin (one with a hole in the middle is best).

2.Mix dry ingredients in a bowl and put aside.

3.Put the bananas in a food processor and blend until smooth and creamy, scraping any lumps from the sides.

4.Add sugar and eggs and blend together for a minute.

5.Add the butter and whiz again until thick and creamy.

6.Add the yoghurt or milk and pulse to combine.

7.Finally, add the dry ingredients from the bowl and pulse in quick bursts until combined, scraping the sides as you go.

8.Put batter evenly into the prepared tin.

9.Bake for 30-35 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.

10.When cooked, leave to cool in the tin for about 5 minutes.

11.Gently loosen the edges and invert onto a metal cooling rack.

12.When cool cut in two layers, spread icing in the middle, sandwich back together and spread thick icing over the top.

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This cake does not rise too much.