Chocolate, Ginger & Banana Cake
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Serves: 10
 
Ingredients
  • 200g vegetable oil
  • 1 large ripe banana
  • 200g caster sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 175g self raising flour
  • 25g good quality cocoa powder
  • 1 tbsp ginger preserve
  • *For The Frosting*
  • 1 tbsp ginger preserve
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 200g icing sugar
  • 100g unsalted butter
  • chocolate sprinkles for decoration
Instructions
  1. pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC (fan)
  2. grease and line 2 x 8 inch cake tins
  3. put the oil, banana and sugar into a bowl and beat well - I used my mixer but if doing this by hand, I would suggest you mashed the banana first
  4. after a few minutes, add the eggs, the ground ginger and a spoonful of the flour and beat well for another couple of minutes
  5. Fold in the remaining flour and the cocoa powder
  6. Stir in the ginger preserve
  7. Pour into the 2 prepared cake tins and cook in the oven for approx 25 minutes until risen and cooked right through. Then remove from the oven and allow to cool completely
  8. Meanwhile, make your frosting
  9. beat the butter until smooth and creamy
  10. carefully add the sugar in 3 batches, and beat with the butter to make a smooth buttercream
  11. add the ginger and ginger preserve and mix in well
  12. Once the cake has cooled completely, sandwich the sponges together with half of the frosting
  13. then top the cake with the remainder of the frosting
  14. then add your sprinkles and then enjoy :)
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2014/11/chocolate-ginger-banana-cake-bakeadifference.html