Easy Banana cake – for those very ripe bananas – serves 10

Ingredients

125g butter

150g caster sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 egg, beaten

2 very ripe bananas, mashed

190g self-raising flour

60ml milk

Method

Grease and line a 2lb loaf tin or 1.5 L aluminium loaf foil. Melt butter, sugar and vanilla in a saucepan over a medium heat. Remove from heat and add the mashed bananas, mix well. Beat eggs in a bowl add it and mix well. Sift in the flour and milk. Pour into the prepared tin. If you like you could sprinkle a tablespoon of demerara sugar on top of the cake before baking to give it a crunch.

Bake at 170°C for 35 mins, until a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool.