Banana Cake
3 medium ripe bananas
1 Teaspoon of vanilla essence
4 oz. of margarine
1 Cup sugar
2 Eggs
2 cups s.r. flour
½ cup milk
1 Teaspoon of carb soda
Mash the bananas with the vanilla essence and leave for 20 mins
Beat sugar and margarine with an electric beater till combined. Add the eggs and beat well. Add the mashed bananas.
Dissolve the carb soda in the milk and add alternatively with flour till all combined.
Pour in a lined square cake tin and bake in a moderate hot oven for 50 mins. About 170 to 180c
Do not open the oven till 50 mins is gone. After that you can peep in and see whether cooked. Or test with a skewer. Let cool in tin for 10 mins before turning out.
Serve sliced with butter or ice with lemon icing.
Lemon Icing
¾ cup icing sugar
A nob of butter
Squeeze of half lemon
And if needed a drop or two of boiling hot water till the mixture is thick.
Ice when the cake is cool.