This banana cake is all done in one bowl, just mash, mix and cook.

Ingredients:

4 medium ripe bananas (1½ cups mashed)

½ cup (125ml) light flavoured olive oil or vegetable oil (you can blend the two oils if you don’t quite have enough of one

3 eggs

1 cup brown sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1½ cups self-raising flour

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (you can be generous with this if you enjoy a more ‘spiced’ cake)

Method: Preheat oven to 180°c. Place the bananas in a bowl and mash with a fork. Add the oil, eggs, sugar and vanilla and mix to com­bine. Add the flour and cinnamon and mix to combine. Pour into a 22cm round cake tin lined with non-stick baking paper. Cook for 45 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Allow to stand in the tin for five minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Note: You can also make this mixture into muffins, a ring or loaf cake. You can also add choc chips or berries if you have them on hand.