Banana cake

This is a recipe that I always go back to. It's truly a good, no-fail recipe from Prima website. But I reduce the amount of sugar. the baked cake is moist and buttery. My adaptations in brackets below...


What you need

• 260g Self-Raising Flour
• 220g Castor Sugar (reduced to 180gm)
• 180g Butter
• 260g Banana (pisang hijau) (I used del monte bananas, make sure they are ripe enough so that it's more fragrant)
• 4 Eggs
• 30ml Milk
• ¾ tsp Baking Soda
• ½ tsp Vanilla Essence
• 1 tsp Emulsifier (optional)

What to do

• Cream butter and sugar at medium speed till light and fluffy.
• Add emulsifier and mix well.
• Add eggs a little at a time and mix till batter is smooth and creamy.
• Mash bananas and stir into the milk.
• Fold in the mashed banana mixture and vanilla essence.
• Sift  Self-Raising Flour and baking soda together and gently fold in.
• Pour the batter into a greased lined round baking tin (8inch) and bake at 170° for 60-70 mins.

Mooncakes....

Well, since I started working in the new organization in April, I can only use one word to describe my life... HECTIC.  so much so that most of the days, weekends included, I only wish to rest and catch up on my sleep.


Sorry to say that I had not been blogging much. In fact, I had not been trying new recipes much too. If I had enough energy to bake, it's usually the same ole recipes that I know the family would like.


I had plans to bake traditional mooncakes but it did not materialise, even tho' I had made a trip to get the lotus paste. So in the end, I did walnuts mooncakes.... only did 1 batch of walnut mooncakes, even tho they were very well received.

With some leftover lotus paste, I did some chinese flaky pastry. These too, were good. :)