Banana Cake

Banana Cake. The cake of choice when procrastibaking (I wish I could claim credit for 'procrastibaking' as I think it's rather amusing and incredibly accurate, but someone on the internet far cleverer than I came up with it). My house is mostly half clean, my dishes & clothes cleaned however not put away. But hey, I have banana cake! 

Now, this is an easy cake to make, however you will note it has a breakfast cereal as one of its ingredients. Again with the breakfast ingredients. Why? I am not convinced it needs the All Bran, the cake is nice and may not need it. I iced it with a bit of cream cheese and lemon juice, and it was a lovely mid-afternoon snack today. Procrastisnacking.

Banana Cake

115 g. butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 tsp. vanilla essence

¼ tsp. ground nutmeg

1 egg

I cup mashed banana (2-3 fully ripe bananas)

1 tsp. grated lemon rind

1 tbsp. lemon juice

1½ cup self-raising flour

½ tsp. bicarbonate of soda

2 cups All Bran

½ cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 160°C

Cream butter, sugar, vanilla essence and nutmeg, add egg and beat well.

Mash the banana with the lemon juice and rind.

Sift flour and bicarbonate soda, and combine with the All Bran. Then, alternating with banana mix, add to the creamed butter mixture.

Fold in the chopped walnuts, then turn into a greased cake tin (or ring tin), lined with paper on the bottom. Bake for 30 minutes .

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