Sweet Summer 2: Bite Into Jack's Banana Cake, by Susanne Gervay

Ingredients

125g soft butter

½ cup castor sugar

2 large eggs, whisked

2 large, ripe bananas or 3 small bananas, mashed

1 ½ cups self-raising flour

½ teaspoon bi-carb soda

pinch salt

½ cup milk

2 tablespoons of mango yoghurt (or your favourite yoghurt)

Method

1.     Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees celsius
2.     Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
3.     Beat eggs a bit at a time into the creamed butter and sugar
4.     Stir in half the flour, bi-carb soda and all the salt and mashed bananas
5.     Fold in the rest of the flour and bi-carb soda, adding milk to make a smooth mixture
6.     Stir in the yoghurt
7.     Spoon mixture into a greased 20cm X 10cm loaf tin or a 20cm round cake tin

Cook Banana Cake

Bake cake for about 40 minutes, or until cooked.

Cook cake in tin for 5 minutes before turning out.

Postscript: Jack’s banana cake is from ‘Always Jack’ by Susanne Gervay (from the I AM JACK series) endorsing The Cancer Council for The BIGGEST MORNING TEA.