Banana cake

I think the best way to save ones' recipes is to blog them. So here goes simple and easy Banana Recipe which can be applied to making variety of cakes. Keeping the basic ingredients and measurements same we just need to replace the main flavor with our choice of fruit. Here I am posting it for Banana Cake but I have tried carrot, mango and tuti-frutii cakes with the same ingredients and measurements and they all came out well :)

Ingredients

1. 1/2 cup butter
2. 2 eggs
3. 1 tsp vanilla essence(optional)
4. 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
5. 1/2 tsp baking soda
6. 11/4 cup sugar ( I go for 1 cup because we don't like cakes that are too sweet)
7. 2 big over ripe bananas (approx.. 1 1/2 cup )
8. 2 cups all purpose flour (for healthier version add 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour and 1/2 cup wheat flour)
9. 1/4 tsp salt
10. 1 tbsp milk

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. Beat Sugar and butter together in an electric blender. Do Not over beat just a quick blend.
3. Now beat egg,salt and milk together in an electric blender.
4. Mash bananas roughly and add essence to it.  
5. Mix all the dry ingredients- flour,baking powder,baking soda.
6. Now combine all the wet and dry ingredients and give it a stir till they just cover each other. No need to over-mix it.(Remember this is a quick cake recipe ;))
7. Line the cake pan with aluminium foil and pour the mixture into it.
8. Bake it in the oven for 30-40 mins or until the toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Happy Baking!!!

-Namita