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American Diner Banana Cake

Added on Tue Oct 30 2007

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" I love bananas but never cooked this for my mum as she was allergic to them! This cake keeps really moist for over 3 days if covered "

This recipe belongs to 'pudding heaven'

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The Basics

• Dish: Dessert and Sweets
• cuisine: America
• Serves: 8-10
• Prep Time: 0hrs 25 mins
• Cooking Time: 1hrs 0 mins

Ingredients

• 2 Ripe Bananas
• 2 tblspn Sour Cream
• 6oz caster sugar
• 2 tspn lemon zest
• 7 oz Plain Flour
• 2 tblspn baking powder
• 1 tspn Vanilla Essence
• 2 Large eggs
• 5oz unsalted butter

Method

Heat the oven to Gas 4. Blitz bananas and sour cream in a food processor. Add the eggs and vanilla essence and lemon zest and zap again. Mix the flour, baking powder and sugar in a bowl, beat in the butter along with the wet ingredients, adding these a little at a time and beating in between ( do not over beat). Pour into a 9in loose bottomed cake tin, which has been greased and lined with baking parchment) and bake in the middle of the oven for 40 mins. Test cake, and if still wobbly in the middle, return to the oven for another 10 mins.

When cooked, turn out and cool. When completley cold, melt 200 g plain chocolate, abd beat with 300ml sour cream. Use the frosting to ice the cake on top and around the sides. Alow the frosting to cool and firm up, then serve.