In all honesty, this didn't start out as a Pac-Man tribute cake. The fact is I had two overripe bananas and the ingredients for a Victoria sponge, but the cake smelt so fabulous coming out of the oven that by the time I'd located my camera it looked like this.
The brilliant thing about this recipe (apart from the smell) is that it works equally well with yellow bananas or those black ones that are way past their best. Cooking time varies according to the size of the fruit and your cake tin, and you can adjust the cinnamon to taste. Today though, this is what I did...
INGREDIENTS
175g butter (softened)
175g caster sugar
3 eggs
175g self-raising white flour
2 medium bananas (ripe or overripe)
2 generous teaspoons of cinnamon
METHOD
1. Grease and flour an 8 inch cake tin. Preheat the oven to 180C (350F, Gas Mk 4).
2. Beat the butter and sugar together. Normally, I avoid hand blenders like the plague, but it really makes a difference here so is well worth the moral compromise.
3. Add the eggs gradually and mix well.
4. Fold in the flour, avoiding the compulsion to sieve (not necessary).
5. Chop and add the bananas. Mix using the hand blender. Your mixture should be smooth and moist, and will rise to form a lovely sweet, dense cake.
6. Add the cinnamon and mix well.
7. Tip the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 20 mins. Check the cake every 5 minutes from this point on (today's cake took 35 minutes). It is ready when it is golden on top and shrunk slightly from the edges.
8. Hide cake from family and eat in private.
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