Banana Cake!

The age old question - what do you do with 3 manky black bananas after the kids have decided that they no longer eat them? Well this was passed to me by my sister and I made it yesterday. What a success and the non banana eating crowd wolfed it down and had seconds!

Banana Cake

9 oz self raising flour
10oz sugar
4oz of soft butter
3 ripe bananas
2 large eggs
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 tsp bicarb of soda

Mix all the ingredients together - I use electric hand whisk and do dry stuff and butter first then eggs last, then fold in mashed up bananas. Use 2 grease and bottom lined round tins and bake in a 180 oven for 25 -30 minutes. Once cooked and cooled fill with jam and serve. The perfect jam is home made plum but strawberry or blackcurrent work well too.
Enjoy and please comment and follow!

Rosemary biscuit recipe

As promised for all those who asked the Rosemary Biscuit Recipe!


8oz plain flour
4oz butter
5oz castor sugar
1 egg
1 pinch salt
2oz finely chopped walnuts
1 tsp finely chopped rosemary



Cream together the butter and sugar and then add the egg and beat in. Slowly add the flour and salt half at a time until you have a paste. Roll this into a sausage shape about 4cm across. Wrap in foil and put in the fridge for at least 2 hours. Cut 1/2 cm thick discs off the sausage and place on baking sheet and cook in pre heated oven at 190 c/gas 5 for 10 mins until lightly golden. The sausage will keep in the fridge for up to 2 weeks!





Here's a non glam pic of me with said biscuits and don't forget you can ring the changes with flavour by adding, raisins, hazelnuts, cherries etc.





Let me know how you got on....