Cooking with ginger always makes me think of Christmas – must be something to do with festive gingerbread men – so this week, we stuck with the seasonal theme and made a banana and ginger cake.
Ingredients
- 125g butter
- 150g golden syrup
- 100g light muscovado sugar
- 2 bananas
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 250g self raising flour
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
To decorate
- 200g icing sugar
- 5-6 teaspoons water
- few drops of food colouring
- sugar strands or mini stars to decorate
Method
- Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup together in a saucepan.
- Peel and mash bananas
- Whisk together milk and eggs in a small bowl
- Take the saucepan off the heat and add flour, ginger and bananas and beat until smooth
- Add the egg and milk mixture and stir well
- Pour cake mix into a greased and lined tin and bake at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes
- Once cool, sift icing sugar and add water gradualy to make a smooth spreadable paste. Add in the food colouring if desired
- Pour over the cake, and smooth flat before decorating
- Leave to set for 30 minutes before slicing
A basic and simple cake recipe, but with a lovely unique flavour that everyone seems to love. Perfect for packed lunch boxes, or serve with warm custard as a lovely winter treat!
This looks lovely and moist! A great new way to use up old bananas (I inevitably have 2-3 left in the bowl at the end of the bunch), and I love a moist ginger cake. Nom a nom a nom! Will defo be baking this!
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It’s very moist, and a great way to use up those lingering bananas – we always have a couple going soft in the fruit bowl too! Let me know how you get on 🙂
Love the added stars!! x
This sounds delicious #recipeoftheweek
That looks so nice! Hope you had someone to help you with the washing up, too!
Don’t think I’ll try this one – I can’t abide bananas lol
Funnily enough neither can I, but I actually quite like this cake!
Loooove the look of these! Super cute looking and I’m a big fan of bananas – both on their own and in cake.
Thanks for linking up with #recipeoftheweek. I’ve Pinned, Stumbled and am about to Tweet this post and there’s a new linky live at 8pm tonight as usual. Would love you to join in 🙂
Thanks for stopping by! I have a savoury offering this week, shall be linking up tomorrow! 🙂
I am so gonna try this, have bookmarked so I can have a better read in the AM. Thanks for sharing x
I love banana cake and I love all things ginger flavoured never tried the flavours combined before but it sounds so intriguing that I have got to try it for myself. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
Mmm looks good, I love ginger! x Char
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My dad would love this so I have bookmarked this to bake with my kids for Father’s Day!
This looks yummy and will be full of goodness and flavour – I must try!
Oh this looks and sounds delicious thankyou so much for sharing!!! 😀