Spicy Banana Cake

Oven mittens and paper napkins from Kilkenny Shop. Design by Ulster Weavers.

This is The Cake you can nearly always find in our house. We keep buying bananas regularly but then not eating them as regularly as we should so we end up having overripe bananas in the fruit basket. And the easíest place to dump them into has become a cake, this cake!

Spicy Banana Cake

150 g soft butter
2 dl / 3/4 cup granulated sugar
0.5 dl / 1/4 cup soft brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
3-4 soft (overripe) bananas, mashed
1 dl / 1/2 cup corn flour
4 dl / 1½ cups plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bread soda
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ground cardamom
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp ground cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 175 degrees C (350 F) and grease and flour (I use dried breadcrumbs) a 1,5-2-litre fluted ring cake pan.
2. Combine flour, baking powder, bread soda and spices in a bowl.
3. Cream together butter and both sugars.
4. Mix in eggs and vanilla extract.
5. Add the dry ingredients together with the mashed bananas and mix well.
6. Pour into the pan and bake about 1 h in 175 degrees C.
7. Let cool completely before cutting into slices.

Optional:
*Sprinkle with icing sugar.
*Enjoy with vanilla ice cream and butterscotch syrup
*Make muffins instead of cake - baking time in 175 C about 20 minutes