2010 - YEAR OF THE "NAHNA" CAKE
Faced with three very over-ripe bananas which I didn't want to waste I trawled the internet for a banana cake recipe.With some alterations and additions here is the latest
Baddie the Pirate Nahna Cake Recipe
4oz butter
3oz dark brown sugar
3oz soft brown sugar or cane sugar
1-3 over-ripe bananas
2 eggs
(preferably free range. If you are thinking of keeping your own chickens learn how on one of Haven Smallholding's courses). 8oz wholemeal self raising flour
For the topping
1/2 tsp cocoa powder
1 tsp dark brown sugar and 1 tsp cane sugar
a handful of flaked almonds
a few pine nuts
Cream the butter and sugar together. Add the bananas and mash with a fork. Add the eggs and mix. Add the flour and mix some more. Turn in to a greased baking tin. Mix the topping ingredients together and sprinkle on the top of the cake. Bake at gas mark 4 for 30 mins then turn down to gas to mark 2, and bake until ready. The more bananas you add the longer the cake takes to cook, so for 1 nahna cut the cooking time a little; for 3 extend it to 40 mins at gas mark 4 and 20 mins or until knife comes clean when you pierce the cake at gas mark 2.
Turn out and leave to cool, or better still eat while still warm!
I've a feeling 2010 may become known as year of the banana cake around here as I'm so taken with experimenting with "nahna cake baking" that my friends and neighbours are getting used to regular deliveries of different versions of the recipe. Above is the best one yet, but may be subject to change if a better version is engineered!
