Banana Cake Papuan-style

Ingredients

• ½ cup margarine or butter
• ½ cup of sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 medium size bananas (mashed)
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1½ cups of self-raising flour
• ⅓ cup of milk - well enough to give it the right texture, wet, but not runny.

Procedures

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 °C (gas/electric).
2. Beat butter, sugar and vanilla extract until creamy.
3. Gradually beat in eggs and add mashed bananas.
4. Mix milk and bicarbonate of soda and fold into banana mixture with flour.
5. Pour batter into a round greased 20 cm deep-sided cake pan.
6. Bake for 45–50 minutes in a hot oven.