Iced ginger and banana slices

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This was going to be my offering to the 1st birthday challenge, but in my hurry to bake something, I left out the chocolate!

Having arrived back from our French holiday last night, I went over to see my grandsons this morning. Tom, who's 10, and I have started baking together, and I'd promised we could make something. We hunted through his children's baking book and found these. He loves ginger and bananas so they seemed perfect.


Here's the recipe.

125g butter
150g golden syrup
100g light muscovado sugar
2 bananas
2 eggs
2 tbspns milk
250g sr flour
2 tspns ground ginger
1/2 tspn bicarb. of soda

Topping
200g icing sugar
5-6 tspns water
hundreds and thousands/sugar strands [or anything else you fancy] to sprinkle on top

Grease and line a 18x28cm roasting tin.
Preheat oven 180C/350F/gas4

Put the butter, syrup and sugar in a saucepan and heat gently till melted. Take off the heat.
Peel and mash the bananas with a fork.
Beat the eggs and milk together.
Mix the flour, ginger and bicarb together in a bowl, then add to the butter mixture with the bananas and beat till smooth.
Add the egg and milk and mix again.
Pour into the tin.
Bake for 20-25 mins till it's golden and risen. Leave to cool in the tin for 10 mins then put onto a wire rack.

Make the icing - mix the water and sieved icing sugar to make a good, spreadable icing. Pour it over the cooled cake and smooth it flat. Sprinkle over the sugar strands and leave the icing to set.
When set, cut the cake into 16 slices.


It was great fun to make, especially the icing and sprinkles - mess everywhere, but a very happy grandson!
The other boys enjoyed eating them .

Comments

Phil in the Kitchen said…
These look yummy. I think the mess is definitely all part of the fun of baking. Until I have to clear it up, of course.
23/9/11 4:52 am
Suelle said…
I hope you had a good holiday - for the first year in a long time we aren't able to visit France this year!

The cake sounds lovely, but perhaps you should add a few chocolate chips as an optional extra - our We Should Cocoa entries should still contain chocolate!
23/9/11 5:34 am
Snowy said…
Suelle, I completely forgot that! Trying to do things too quickly!
24/9/11 3:30 am
Choclette said…
These sound like a lovely combination - there have been a lot of ginger bakes around the blogosphere recently. Must be the season ;-)

Hope you had a good holiday.
29/9/11 12:43 pm
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