BANANA, PECAN AND NUTELLA CAKE
pre-heat oven to 170 degrees C
ingredients:
4 over ripe bananas
340g castor sugar
340g self raising flour (if you have plain, add 1tbsp baking powder or it will stay flat)
340g soft butter
6 eggs
100ml milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
80g roughly chopped pecan nuts
then
cream butter and sugar
add the eggs
mash the banana together with the vanilla and the milk
mix all ingredients together
pour into two 25cm baking tins
cook in oven for 40 minutes
leave the cakes to cool whilst preparing the icing
nutella icing - mix together:
2 tbs Nutella
225g Creme cheese
400g icing sugar
1 tbs vanilla
when the cakes are cool put them together with a layer of the nutella icing
generously ice the top of the cake - decorate with fresh banana slices and icing sugar, and now eat it.
if you get as far as preparing the sliced bananas and can't be arsed with the rest - just freeze them for 2 hours (or until they're rock hard) and then puree them in a blender. add a tablespoon of honey or peanut butter and serve. banana icecream just like that. honestly, it really is that simple. and delicious.
