Anky's Fave Banana Cake

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 125 g butter or 125 g margarine, softened
• 125 g caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 bananas, over ripe and mashed are best
• 375 g self raising flour
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 orange, juice of
• grated orange rind (to garnish)
• 30 g butter
• 1 1/2 cups icing sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180deg cel. grease/line cake tin. (9').
• 2 beat together sugar and butter til fluffy.
• 3 beat in the eggs.
• 4 mash the banana and stir the bi carb inches.
• 5 add banana and bi carb to sugar and egg mix.
• 6 fold in the flour and milk alternately.
• 7 pour into cake tin.
• 8 bake 40 mins or till a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. (the cake will be browned on top, not burnt, and sort of firm to touch). allow to sit 5 mins then turn onto wire rack to cool.
• 9 to ice; add juice to 1 1/2 cups icing sugar, till firm, beat in the butter.
• 10 spread over cooled cake and garnish with orange rind.