Banana Cake

Weekends are the 2 days in the week that your allowed to laze around. So what activities occupy your time?

My time without doubt is spent on two things.. shopping and cooking. Which I was surprised I managed to do all in one day!!

I made a simple banana cake yesterday. It doesn't take a genius to make it and it will be gone before you can say b-a-n-a-n-a. Its a small cake and can be placed in your ordinary small tin loaf OR a small round cake tin. For ease of removing I've placed baking paper across the small round cake tin.

This recipe is from Women's Weekly Magazine that I've always followed and have never encountered any problems. Eight easy steps that even kids will be able to follow.
Ingredients:
2 very ripe banana
125gm of butter
1 egg
1 1/2 cup of self-raising flour
1/4 cup of milk
3/4 cup of sugar (Daryl (my soon to be hubby) doesn't like too sweet stuff so I usually cut them down to approximately 2/4 cup of sugar)
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

1) Mash the banana. Don't worry if there's small lumps on them.
2) Bring a small to medium pot and melt butter, sugar and vanilla essence
3) Add in mashed banana stir well
4) Keeping the fire to small - add in egg. Mix well
5) Add sifted self-raising flour and stir
6) Pour in milk and ensure its combine
7) Turn off fire and transfer into baking tin
8) Bake in oven 170 for 40min.

End results: Yummy-licious simple banana cake perfect for afternoon tea or morning breakfast.

((Shopping Bonanza))

Went with Jane to DFO in Homebush on Saturday as well. They had a pretty massive sales. For Esprit lovers they are having 50% off on all marked reduced price. I managed to snag myself some pretty t-shirts, a dress and a working shirt. For 5 items it was less than $80 (ka-ching!!)

Oakley is having sales too.. any two fleece jackets was only for $100. That's approximately $50 a jacket. Bought one for Daryl and Jane bought one for her partner too.

Got some PJ that's nothing to brag about as its the same price..

One very very important purchase I made that I was extremely happy about was my ramekins. I got 4 mini ramekins for $12. What a bargain! I'm excited to try the ramekins next week.. I'm debating what should I be making with the ramekins. sigh.. creme brulee? Or maybe a souffle? I'll keep reading all the blogs and recipe books and hopefully when next week comes I'll be able to make up my mind. I can't wait..

Anyways, that's it for Sunday 16th of May 2010.

xoxo,
Bee