Monday 30 June 2008

Spiced Banana Rum Cake

A firm fave with the partner, for obvious reasons....

Ingredients


  • 200g Light Muscovado Sugar

  • 200g Plain Flour

  • 175g Sultanas

  • 100g Pecan Nuts, toasted and chopped

  • 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon

  • ½ tsp Grated Nutmeg

  • ½ tsp Salt

  • 2 tsp Baking Powder

  • 3 Ripe Bananas

  • 4 tbsp Dark Rum

  • 3 Eggs, beaten

  • 120g Butter

Method:



  1. Toss the sultanas and pecans in 2 tablespoons of the flour.

  2. Cream the butter and sugar until light.

  3. Mash the bananas with the rum and gradually beat into the mixture.

  4. Beat in the eggs, a little at a time.

  5. Sift together the dry ingredients and fold into the mixture.

  6. Lightly stir in the sultanas and pecans.

  7. Spoon into a greased, lined 23 cm cake tin and cook for about 1 hour, Gas 5/190°C/375°F until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

  8. Cool in the tin for a few minutes then finish cooling on a wire rack.