Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake

Banana and Vanilla Tea Cake Recipe by Studebaker Yield: 10 slices, Ready in 1 hour 12 mins, (20 mins Prep - 45 mins Cook) ingredients • 125 g butter (at room temperature) • 185 g caster sugar • Teaspoon of vanilla essence • 2 very ripe bananas (to about 180 g of flesh) • 1 egg • 1/4 teaspoon bicarb soda • 100 ml of milk • 180g self raising flour preparation method 1. Preheat the oven to 180C. 2. Blend butter and caster sugar until creamy. Add vanilla and keep beating. 3. Peel very ripe bananas and mash them with a fork (if defrosted bananas as in the tips section, just squeeze them into batter and beat). Add them, along with the egg, to the butter and mix well. 4. In a small bowl, mix bicarbonate of soda with milk until dissolved, then add to the banana mixture. Sift 180g of self-raising flour and fold, gradually, into the mixture. 5. Grease a small loaf tin, then pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 45 minutes or so. It's done when a skewer pushed into the middle of the cake comes out dry.