CHRISTMAS RECIPES > CHRISTMAS CAKES

Banana Pecan Cake

Ingredients:

125 g butter
1 cup brown sugar lightly packed
3 eggs
100g pecans roughly chopped
1 3/4 cups self raising flour
3 medium bananas, mashed
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Method:

Preheat oven 160 degrees (centigrade).
Grease and line 24 x 13 cm loaf tin.
Beat butter and sugar together, add eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition.
Fold in flour and pecans til just combined.
Combine bananas, milk and vanilla and stir into cake mixture.
Spoon into prepared tin.
Bake 60 to 75 mins (test with skewer - mine was just 1 hour).
Cool 5 min in tin before turning onto cooling rack.
Ice with cream cheese frosting, and decorate with extra pecans - 125 gm cream cheese; half cup icing sugar, squeeze lemon juice.