When I was younger, I love eating banana cakes. Used to buy the whole loaf from the night market as in those days we hardly do any baking at home. My mom is not too keen to bake then. Also, it was more convenient to just buy as bake goods were not too expensive in those days.
I must say that over the years, the humble banana cake has evolved quite a bit as people are adding more ingredients into it and came out with all sorts of modified banana cakes or even breads which are more western types that has a more compact or denser texture.
Here is a version where Gula Melaka was added to further enhance the aroma of this all time favorite.
Ingredients
- 180g butter
- 60g castor sugar
- 50g brown sugar
- 280g all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp soda bicarbonate powder
- 4 eggs (beaten)
- 300g bananas (mashed)
- 90g gula Melaka
- 3 tsp water
Methods
- Preheat oven to 160°C.
- Sift all purpose flour, baking powder and soda bicarbonate powder, set aside.
- Beat butter, brown sugar and castor sugar with a mixer till light and fluffy.
- Add in beaten eggs in 4 additions.
- In a small sauce pan heat up water and shaved gula Melaka to melt.
- Mix mashed bananas and melted gula Melaka and pour into mixture.
- Fold in flour in 3 additions.
- Pour batter into greased or lined loaf pan. Sprinkle some shaved Gula Melaka and brown sugar on the surface before sending into oven.
- Bake for 70 mins on the second lower rack of the oven. Check for doneness with a cake tester before removing from oven.
