Banana and Treacle Cake

Banana and Treacle cake

This is actually a James Martin recipe, he uses golden syrup, but Dubai is currently out of golden syrup so I substituted it with treacle. Its works really well, the cake is a little darker and richer, but still a winner with the family. Every week I seem to make something with over ripe bananas, with the heat they only last a couple of days and my kids apparently don't like to eat things that according to them  "don't look right". I love the fact that all the ingredients are mixed together in a food processor, no beaters, mixing bowls and the rest of the paraphernalia that is part of baking!!!!!!!

Ingredients

3 large rip bananas
100 gms butter
4 tbs treacle
100 gms castor sugar
250 gms plain flour
4 teas baking powder
3 eggs

Method

Pre heat oven to 190c.
Place the bananas in a food processor and pulse for 10 seconds.
Add remaining ingredients, and blend until you have a smooth batter.
Pour the batter into a prepared cake tin and cook for 1 hour or until a cake skewer comes out clean.

Note : you may need to cover the cake with foil during the cooking time if it starts to brown to much.