Banana Bread
Ingredients
140g of butter, softened (plus extra for the tin)
140g of caster sugar
2 large eggs, beaten
140g of self raising flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
2 very ripe bananas, mashed
50g of icing sugar
Method
Heat the oven to 180℃
Butter a 2lb tin (roughly 20cm by 10cm) and line the base and sides with baking parchment
Cream the butter and caster sugar until light and fluffy, then slowly add the egg and half the flour
Fold in the other half of the flour with the baking powder and the bananas
Pour into the tin and bake for 30 mins or until a skewer comes out clean
Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then remove to a wire rack
Mix 50g of icing sugar with 2-3 tsp of water to make a runny icing
Drizzle across the top of the cake and serve
NB/ this recipe was taken from www.bbcgoodfood.com