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Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog of everything and anything cooking! To begin with I'd Love to share one of my most favourite recipes with you guys: Banana cake! I spent the first 10 years of my life in Zimbabwe and used to make the most heavenly banana cake there ever was! Somehow during the relocation i managed to lose this fantastic recipe and have been searching for the past 8 years for a similar recipe! About a month ago I stumbled upon a blog 'baking mum' i think it was called and here i discovered what id spent almost half my life searching for, the perfect banana cake recipe. I tried it right away and the cake came out moist, fluffy and without a close texture (see pictures) much to my excitement and probably the annoyance of my neighbours (there was a lot of jumping up an down and screams of excitement involved!). Below is the recipe and some pictures (if i can get them up!) i urge all banana cake lovers and haters to try this recipe, you won't be disapointed!

Ingredients:
180g butter
150g sugar
2 medium eggs
2 medium bananas mashed (i prefer to blitz them with a blender to make sure they dont sink!)
60ml milk (preferably full fat)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
250g self raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Method:
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius and grease and flour a 1litre (small) loaf tin. Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl unitl light and creamy. Beat in eggs one at a time and if the mixture begins to curdle add in about a tablespoon of flour. Add in the mashed bananas, vanilla essence and milk and mix well. Gradually add in the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and mix only until everything is well incorporated. When done, pour mixture into the cake tin and bake for at least 50 minutes before checking. It normally takes about an hour to cook! Ive found that if the cake is taken out of the tin too quickly it can break up so leave it to cool in the tin for a while before turning out onto a wire cooling rack. Also try to resist the urge to cut the cake straight away, it so much better after its been allowed to 'mature' for a couple of hours, this is however a tall order... i still havent succeeded! xxx