Ingredients

• 125g of butter – room temperature
• 1 cup of caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups of self raising flour
• ½ teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 4 large bananas
• Cream Cheese Frosting
• 250g of cream cheese – softened
• 100g of butter – softened
• 1¼ cups of pure icing sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Instructions

1. Cake:
2. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and line the base of a DEEP 22cm round cake tin.
3. Place the butter and sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixture and beat until they mixture is light and fluffy.
4. Add the eggs one at a time to the creamed butter and sugar mixture, making sure to beat each egg in well before adding the next.
5. Remove the bowl for the electric mixer stand and sift in the flour, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon.
6. Add the mashed bananas and carefully fold through until the mixture has just combined.
7. Spoon the cake mixture into a lined and deep 22cm cake pan and bake for 50 minutes or until the cake is cooked when tested with a skewer
8. Remove the cooked cake from the oven and allow to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before carefully transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
9. Spread a thick layer of the cream cheese frosting (see recipe below) across the top of the cooled cake.
10. Cream cheese frosting:
11. Place the softened cream cheese, butter and vanilla extract in a large bowl before sifting the icing sugar over the top.
12. Using electric beaters, start mixing the ingredients together on a low speed before increasing to a medium/high speed. Continue to mix until all the ingredients have combined.