BANANA CAKE

Recipe adapted from here.

Ingredients:
250g (1 cup) mashed over-ripe banana, from about 2 cavendish bananas
1 teaspoon lemon juice
150g butter, softened
150g caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 eggs
200g plain flour (I mixed in 40g of whole wheat flour)
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon bicarb. of soda (baking soda)
2 tablespoons milk powder

Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease the sides of a 20cm round cake tin and line base with baking paper.

2. Mash the bananas and lemon juice with a fork, set aside. Sift plain flour, baking powder, soda and milk powder together, set aside.

3. Cream butter and caster sugar until pale and creamy. Beat in vanilla. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until combined.

4. Add mashed banana and fold in. Add sifted flour mixture and fold in.

5. Pour into the prepared tin. Bake for about 50 minutes, or until cooked when tested with a skewer.