Banana Cake with Chocolate Icing
An irresistible banana cake that is delicious to frost with chocolate icing
Ingredients
- 125 g unsalted butter
- 120 g light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs - about 70g each with shell
- 250 g overly ripe banana - mashed
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tbsp hot milk
- 230 g cake flour or plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
Chocolate Icing
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1.5 tbsp cocoa powder - sifted
- 6 tbsp icing sugar - sifted
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 - 1.5 tbsp fresh milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Line a 8 inch round cake pan and grease the sides.
- Beat butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in mashed banana and vanilla extract till combined.
- Mix baking soda and hot milk together before stirring into the banana mixture. Sift in flour and baking soda, fold well with a rubber spatula.
- Pour banana batter into prepared cake pan and bake in the preheated oven for about 40-45 minutes or a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Set aside to cool cake in pan for 5-10 minutes before lifting out onto rack to cool.
- Chocolate icing - Melt butter in a small pot at low heat. Pour in cocoa powder and mix well. Than add icing sugar, stir well and off heat. Add vanilla extract, fresh milk little by little into it, stir mixture until smooth and have spreading consistency you desire.
- Spread chocolate icing on top of cake and chill the cake for about 30 minutes before serving.
Notes
Please keep in mind that all ovens temperature and baking time varies.
recipe adapted from here with slight adjustment
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