Hello everyone. Back after a short break and a new recipe for you :) Iced banana and citrus cake, an interesting combination, but once again goes back to childhood. One of the stories my mum told me was her first experience of having a banana to eat. During the war years so many things were in limited supply and bananas were very rare indeed. Not sure how her family managed to get any, but they did, and she was given one. My gran showed her how to peel it, and believe it or not she made it last all day, and there started her love of bananas!
As children we seemed to have bananas in every shape and form, milk shakes, on toast, mashed up in sandwiches, cakes, cooked in their skins, seems they were now in good supply and my mum just had a huge appetite for them.
Her favorite way of eating them was in a sandwich, mashed up with lemon curd, marmalade or lime jelly....and she would sprinkle sugar over the whole mixture, cut the whole into 4, make a cuppa, and sit down to watch Corrie with her favorite snack :)
So I have created a cake in her memory, a sponge cake, filled with citrus and butter cream, then iced on top and decorated.
Funny enough you know how they all say you eventually turn into your mother.....well seems I have.....rarely a day goes by without my daily fix of this sweet fruit!
Make your usual sponge mix and add 2 mashed bananas, mix to a firm dropping consistency.
Divide mixture up into 2x8" Tins
Bake at 180C for 20-25 mins or until an inserted skewer comes out clean
Leave to cool on a wire rack
Fill with a lemon flavor butter cream and a citrus curd, jam or jelly
Sandwich together and decorate
I used citrus sprinkles and rice paper daisies for a spring/Easter theme
Happy baking :)
Hugs 4 smiles Maxine x
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