Name: Banana cake with chocolate icing
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 125 gram butter, softened; 3/4 cup caster sugar; 2 eggs; 2 large, ripe bananas, mashed; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 2 tablespoon boiling milk; 1 1/4 cup self-raising flour, sifted; Chocolate icing; 50 gram softened butter; 1 cup icing sugar, sifted; 2 tablespoon cocoa powder, sifted; 2 tablespoon boiling water

Banana cake with chocolate icing

A classic dessert with an extra delicious topping. Photography by Rob Shaw/bauersyndication.com.au

Serves 8

Prep

15M

Cook

45M

Total

Ingredients

125 gram butter, softened

3/4 cup caster sugar

2 eggs

2 large, ripe bananas, mashed

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

2 tablespoon boiling milk

1 1/4 cup self-raising flour, sifted

Chocolate icing

50 gram softened butter

1 cup icing sugar, sifted

2 tablespoon cocoa powder, sifted

2 tablespoon boiling water

Method

1.Preheat oven to 150°C fan bake. Grease a 22cm ring cake tin. Place butter and sugar in a bowl and beat until pale, then add eggs, one at a time. Stir in mashed bananas.

2.Dissolve baking soda in boiling milk and stir into beaten mixture. Fold in the sifted flour. Spoon mixture into the prepared cake tin, smoothing the surface.

3.Bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Remove from tin and spread with chocolate icing (recipe follows), once cold.

4.Beat butter and icing sugar together in a bowl.

5.Add cocoa and boiling water and beat until creamy.

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