Coconut and Banana cake

Today I baked two banana cakes, one with coconut (left) and one without (right).

Ingredients for one banana cake:

80g butter

80g caster sugar

250g self raising flour

2 medium eggs

1 tsp vanilla essence 

4 ripe bananas

For a coconut banana cake, just add as much desiccated coconut as you want.

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and line a loaf tin with baking paper. 

2. Begin by melting the butter in a microwave, and stir in the sugar.
3. Beat in the eggs.
4. I used a hand blender to blitz my bananas, then I stirred it in. You can mash them with a fork but I found the hand blender method easier.
5. Sift in the flour and stir till combined.
6. Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 40-50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. I always keep a watch out once it's been 40 minutes in case the top gets too brown.
7. You can either leave the cake to cool in or out of the tin, (personally I don't think this makes a difference) or you can serve warm.

Let me know if you try it! 

Jenny xo