• These creamy and delicately flavoured fruits don’t get enough credit. Apart from the occasional ice cream split, when do you ever see bananas used really well in a dessert? This warm upside-down banana cake is a game changer. Fruity, sticky and golden.

    Warm upside-down banana cake

    Serves: 6 - 8
    Cooking Time: 1 hr

    Ingredients

    • 200g cake flour
    • 150g castor sugar
    • 125g salted butter, room temperature
    • 125ml (½ cup) milk
    • 2 eggs
    • 10ml (2 tsp) baking powder
    • 45ml (3 tbsp) brown sugar
    • 4 large bananas, halved lengthways
    • icing sugar, to serve

    Instructions

    1

    Preheat the oven to 180°C and grease a 20cm rectangular cake tin.

    2

    Combine the flour, sugar, butter, milk, eggs and baking powder in a large bowl, and mix until smooth and creamy.

    3

    Sprinkle the brown sugar at the bottom of the cake tin and top with the halved bananas.

    4

    Dollop the cake batter on top of the bananas and smooth it over them using a palette knife.

    5

    Place in the oven and bake for 30 – 35 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.

    6

    Remove from the oven and cool for 5 minutes. When cool, turn out and dust with icing sugar before serving.

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