Gluten Free Banana Cake

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 30 mins

Serves: 10

Ingredients

Cake:

  • 125g Margarine spread or chopped butter
  • ¾ cup Brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 1 cup (2 large) Mashed, very ripe Bananas
  • 1 (59g) Egg
  • 1½ cups White Wings Gluten Free Self Raising Flour
  • 2½ Tbsp Milk
  • ½ cup coarsely chopped walnuts

Frosting:

  • 125g Cream Cheese, at room temperature
  • 1½ cups Pure Icing Sugar, sifted
  • 50g Margarine spread or softened butter

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 170ºC conventional or 150ºC fan-forced. Grease and line a 20cm square cake pan with baking paper.
  2. Put margarine spread or butter , sugar and vanilla in a medium saucepan. Stir over a moderate heat until it melts. Remove from heat.
  3. Stir bananas into butter mixture. Add egg, flour and milk; stir to combine. Mix in walnuts. Poor into prepared pan and smooth surface. Bake for 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack to cool completely.
  4. To make frosting: combine 50g margarine spread or soft butter, icing sugar and cream cheese into a medium bowl and beat with an electric mixer until smooth. Spread frosting over the top of the cooled cake.
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