Behold, the festive season is here with us and we are super excited! Today it’s all about our upside banana cake and we can’t get enough of it. The yummy banana flavour, bright colours of the whipped cream frosting, decadent chocolate and the peanut crunch, what else would we ask for?
Ingredients
10 tablespoons margarine plus extra for greasing
3 ripe bananas
9 tablespoons sugar
2 eggs
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground ginger
For decoration
A handful of peanuts
Cocoa
Whipped cream frosting in red and green
Method
1. Beat together 3 tablespoons of margarine and 3 tablespoons of sugar. Spread evenly on the base of the cake tin.
2. Peel and halve 2 bananas lengthways and lay, cut-side down, in the tin.
3. Beat together the margarine, sugar, eggs, vanilla and remaining banana.
4. In a bowl, add flour, baking powder and ground ginger.
5. Stir into the margarine mixture a little at a time, alternating with milk.
6. Carefully spoon the batter into the tin without dislodging the bananas.
7. Bake the cake for 1 hour until a skewer inserted into the center comes out with only moist crumbs.
Decoration
1. Decorate with whipped cream frosting alternating red and green colour. Add beads for a decorative touch.
2. Dust cocoa powder on top and add peanuts.
3. Serve and enjoy!
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