Banana Cake help pls

[thesunflowergal]

My friend makes a really lovely banana cake, its way better than mine. So I asked her for the recipe, this is what she sent me:

75g Butter
110g Sugar (caster)
1 large egg
225g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
4 medium bananas
walnuts optional!

mix all the dry ingrediants add better mix to bread crumb texture then add egg and mix then mash and add banana and the walnuts if adding. (I use an electric mixer but you could do it by hand)

cook in 2lb loaf tin for about 50 mins at 180c (gas 4)

I made it, and I have checked and double checked what she has writen. But the recipe is wrong, there is not enought "wet" ingrediants to form a batter. So I added two more eggs to mine, but its not quite right . Does anyone have any ideas please?

Thanks Nikki

[Green Aura]

This looks similar to a recipe I use. In mine you mash the banana and whisk in the eggs. Cream the butter and sugar add to the banana and egg and then add the flour. I think the proportions are slightly different.

2 large bananas
2 eggs
4oz butter
6oz sugar
8oz self-raising flour.

Bake 200oC for about 45mins.

[Millymollymandy]

Were the bananas nice and ripe - because that might make a difference. I can't quite understand the recipe you posted "add better mix to bread crumb texture" makes no sense (presumably batter mix, what batter mix?) - I do mine like Rosie. Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and already mashed bananas and finally the flour. It it is a little bit too dry add a little bit of milk.

[ina]

MMM, I think it should have read "add butter, mix to bread crumb texture"... What difference a comma makes! And a letter, of course.

My recipe is similar, only no sugar, and I rarely need to add a little milk or orange juice to make it wetter. I agree, the bananas need to be really ripe, otherwise they aren't moist enough.

[thesunflowergal]

Sorry MMM, I just cut and paste it from the email that I was sent.

It wasn't just dry, all the ingredients did not bind together. I will try it again with the three eggs, but this time I will use much riper bananas. Maybe this will account for the lack of taste aswell.

Thanks all

[Millymollymandy]

I thought you'd though it was supposed to be batter as well as you said you couldn't get it to a batter consistency. Banana cake mix won't be that consistency anyway. Why not try the same ratio of ingredients but with very ripe bananas and put the ingredients together in the way that Rosie and I said - which seems to me to be the more normal way of putting together cake ingredients - i.e. folding in the flour last. Seems a bit odd to try to do wet ingreds, then dry ingreds, then wet again! Anyway good luck!

[Loobyloo]

I only ever make a banana loaf if I have bananas that look like they should have been thrown away a day or two before, I'm talking completely black on the outside and mushy in the middle. That way the mix is plenty wet enough. Makes the best banana muffins too hhhmmmm with a sprinkle of demarara on top for crunch.

[ina]

Ripe bananas are soooo sweet anyway - I'll never understand how anybody can add that much sugar! I never have any added sugar in my banana cake, and believe me, it's been eaten by the most conventional cake eaters, and they all liked it and asked for more...

[thesunflowergal]

Thanks Susie. Your recipe sounds lovely, I will give it a go