Tuesday 15 April 2008

Banana Crumble Cake

This morning I decided to bake this luscious Banana Crumble Cake. The recipe is from my new book The Fairtrade Everyday Cookbook, which is packed full of great recipes. If you care about food and where it comes from and want to support fairtrade farmers and workers, this is the cookbook for you. I had some fairtrade bananas going ripe in the fruit bowl and this cake seemed like the perfect excuse to use up those bananas. It isn’t a big fancy cake but a lovely simple everyday cake, which can be served with your favourite cup of coffee/tea or in bowl of hot custard (my son has requested the latter option for his dessert tonight).



Banana Crumble Cake

Ingredients
Topping:

55g Fairtrade golden granulated sugar
30g plain flour
½ tsp Fairtrade ground cinnamon
30g salted butter

Cake:
45g salted butter, softened
75g Fairtrade golden granulated sugar
1 large egg
½ tsp Fairtrade vanilla extract
75ml semi-skimmed milk
110g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
3 medium (or 2 large) Fairtrade bananas, sliced

Method
Preheat the oven to 190oC/375oF/Gas Mark 5. Lightly grease a 20cm (8in) square or round baking tin.
Make the topping first. Mix the sugar, flour, and cinnamon in a bowl, then rub in the butter, until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. (I use a food processor)

For the cake, cream together the butter and sugar in another bowl.

Mix in the egg, vanilla and milk.

Sift together the flour and baking powder. Then add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and stir until just combined.

Spread the batter evenly in the prepared tin.

Place the banana slices evenly over the batter, then finish with the crumb topping. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a knife placed in the centre comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.

18 comments:

Finla said...

Delicious. Your bakes are always looking great

Pixie said...

Maria, you have stolen my heart with this one.

Rosie said...

One beautiful banana cake Maria it really looks gorgeous!! Now for the custard to go with that slice of cake you promised me ;)

Rosie x

Bimmer said...

Maria,
this looks really good! I'm sure your son made a wonderful choice to have it with hot custard!

Maria♥ said...

Thanks everyone for the wonderful kind comments. This cake has been a huge hit with my son and his eating his way through this cake with sheer delight ;o)

Maria
x

Vicky said...

Gorgeous Maria, you're going to have to stop with all these recipes. I just want to make them all!

Vicky xxx

Rhyleysgranny said...

This looks really good Maria. Love the idea with custard. Mmmmmm
xxx

Maria♥ said...

Thanks Vicky and Brenda ;o)

Maria
x

Emily said...

Oh, man! That cake looks wonderful! I love that you put the crumble topping on it. Banana is my absolute favorite fruit.

Gayle said...

Maria, That looks gorgeous. I was wondering whether to buy that book and I thinkyou may have persuaded me!!

KellytheCulinarian said...

How delicious that would be to wake up to!

Maria♥ said...

Thank you everyone for the wonderful comments.

Maria
x

Ruth Strong said...

Sounds like a great cookbook, I'll have to check it out. I love bananas in cakes and puddings, I'm sure I would love this.

Maria♥ said...

Hi Ruth

Thanks sweetie. If you love bananas in cakes, then you will love this cake. It didn't last long in my home ;o)

Maria
x

Nickki said...

Hi Maria, I'm a bit late commenting on this one. It looks so yummy! You've inspired me to make this tonight, I'll let you know how it turns out. It's a cold and rainy day here so it's ideal for today. Custard will be a must with this! Thank you xxx

Amber said...

It looks delicous :D.. around how many people can we serve?

Unknown said...

This is scrumptious! I added chopped nuts to the crumble for extra crunch. :)x

Unknown said...

This is scrumptious! I added chopped nuts to the crumble topping for added crunch. Thank you :)x