The Ridiculous Banana Cake Quest....

I hadn't made Banana Cake in a while and I really didn't think much of it when I decided to use up some over-ripe bananas to whip up a quick cake. Paul loves it and the girls love baking. I had made this cake a million times..... It's been quite a few years though, and I couldn't quite remember the recipe... but how difficult could it be to just download another recipe off the internet right???

SIGH! Boy was I wrong....

The girls have been making banana cake almost everyday after school this week. They are loving this baking frenzy, but mummy is getting frustrated!

CAKE #1: Cake was like a brick and SALTY too! Not even edible! In the bin it went.... :(

CAKE #2: Cake tasted ok, but was HEAVY! Edible.... Emma brought half the cake to school to feed her classmates for snack time. Apparently they chowed it all down so couldn't have been that bad. The other half of the cake unfortunately had to be binned cos we forgot to put it in tupperware overnight and the ants got to it! :(

CAKE #3: I think we are almost there!!! Cake was soft and fluffy (an achievement for banana cake). I remember my previous banana cakes tasting better and I think there can still be some improvement but I am happy with this as a baseline and I will take a break for now. Cake was almost finished by the household in less than a day! A good sign I suppose....

Check out the girls having a finger lickin' good time making a mess and licking up the mix.

The quest continues but fine tuning is going to take more patience and time which I am not willing to invest at the moment. Next time, I will not depend on my memory and actually keep my recipes in a safe place...