Home Attitude: Flat sheet banana cake with chocolate topping

Banana cake or loaf is one way to stop waste and use up your overly ripe bananas if you don’t freeze it on time. Banana is sweet so it’s hard to go wrong. I used alcohol in this recipe to give it and extra zing. This recipe made a big enough batch to share with my neighbours and I definitely got the “mmmm” and “so good” response because they all loved it.

Ingredients

Banana cake

· 2 ½ cups of self-rising flour

· ¾ cup brown sugar (packed)

· ½ cup white sugar

· 1tsp mix spice

· 1 tsp baking powder

· 3 eggs

· ½ cup buttermilk (or ½ cup of milk with lemon or vinegar)

· 1 ½ vanilla extract

· 1 cup butter (melted and brought to room temperature

· 2 tbsp. rum (optional)

· 7 small or 4 big overly ripe bananas

· 2 pinches of salt

Chocolate topping

· 200g milk chocolate (good quality)

· 2 tbsp. rum (optional)

· 1 tsp. vanilla extract

· 1 tbsp. butter

· 1 tsp. water

How to cake it!

v In a bowl, Sift the flour and whisk all the other dry ingredients together. In another bowl, mix the liquid ingredients except the rum.

v Using a fork or hand mixer, mash up the bananas. Add the wet and dry ingredients together in turns starting and ending with wet ingredients. Add the rum lastly.

v Bake in a flat lasagne dish for about 30mins or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

v To make the chocolate topping, place a heat proof dish over boiling water. Put all the chocolate topping ingredients and stir till all the ingredients come together. You’ll notice it has a nice shinny glaze.

v Once the banana cake and chocolate glaze has cooled, spread the chocolate over the cake. Enjoy