Banana Cake Ingredients:
3oz marg
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp mixed spice
1 medium egg
2 bananas (yellow, or even better, brown)
3oz sugar (I use light brown caster sugar)
5oz SR Flour
2oz milled flaxseed (my own addition, gives the cake a better texture)
1/4oz dried fruit (I often leave the fruit out)
Runny Icing Ingredients
Icing sugar
1tsp lemon juice
Boiling water
Method:
1. Preheat oven - Gas mark 4
2. Cream sugar and marg together - gradually add dry ingredients, then egg.
3. Mash bananas in separate bowl and then add into the mixture.
4. Add the dried fruit at the very end.
5. Pour the mixture in a loaf or cake tin and place in middle shelf of oven for 45mins - 1 hr, 45 mins for cake tin, 1hr for loaf tin. Cool on wire rack.
6. Boil some water. Sift icing sugar in bowl (c.8 table spoons), add 1 tsp of lemon juice, then drop by drop add the boiling water. Keep stirring you want the icing to be liquid but still thick so it will keep its shape when poured onto the cake. Allow it to set a little (for a few mins) then pour over cooled cake.
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