Banana Cake Recipe With Coconut

An Incredibly Easy and Delicious

Banana Cake Recipe with Coconut

For this recipe you'll need:

• 2 very ripe bananas
• 6 oz/180gm butter
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/4 cup milk
• 2 cups flour
• 1 1/2 cups finely shredded coconut

Here's the cheat's way of making a super easy banana cake!

Before starting, the first thing to do is always turn on the oven to preheat. For this cake, heat the oven at 180C.  By the time the cake mixture is prepared, the hot air in the oven will be evenly distributed.

In a roomy saucepan melt together the butter and sugar.  Take it off the heat as soon as the butter has melted, but keep stirring. You'll see that it goes from an oily mixture to a thick smooth consistency. Take a look at the picture. You'll see the texture is fairly thick.

Add in the beaten eggs and milk. Stir to combine well.

Pour in the flour and shredded coconut. There's no need to be precious about sifting. Just toss it all in. Fold in the dry ingredients. See in the picture how the mixture goes from dry and lumpy to become a thick smooth batter when all the flour is well combined into the batter.

Pour the cake batter into two silicone loaf tins or a large 9 inch round cake pan.  I prefer loaf tins as a loaf slices evenly and there's less likely to be waste.

Pop it into the oven to bake for 35 minutes and be sure to test with a cake tester. It's ready when the tester comes out "clean"  - there should be no bits of batter sticking to the tester.

Allow to cool and serve immediately.  It's delicious served warm with lashings of butter.