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Everybody should know how to make a good brownie, and banana cake is the best way to use up old bananas. They’re both very easy recipes.

Banana Cake

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 3 bananas
• 1 1/ 2 cups flour
• 1 1/ 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons milk

Method:

• Preheat oven to 175^oC/350^oF
• Melt butter
• Beat butter and sugar together, and add the egg
• Mash bananas and add to mixture
• Add flour and baking powder
• Dissolve the baking powder in the milk, and add to mixture
• Bake for 1 hour

Chocolate Brownie

Ingredients:

• 150g butter
• 6 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1 cup chocolate chips (optional)
• 3/4 cups flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 180^oC/355^oF
• Mix flour and baking powder
• Beat sugar and eggs separately, then add to mixture with vanilla essence
• Melt butter in a saucepan
• Mix the cocoa into the butter, then add them to mixture
• Add chocolate chips (optional)
• Bake for 25 minutes
• When they’re baked and cooled, dust with icing sugar

Tip of the week:
When baking, I always mix the baking powder with the flour before adding it to the rest of the ingredients. It helps ensure the baking powder is spread throughout the whole mixture.

Gluten-free tip:
Just like my earlier choc-chip cookie recipe, these can be made awesomely gluten-free with the aid of mashed potato. Don’t ask me how it works, it just does! Add one small potato/half a large mashed potato to the recipe before you add your gluten-free flour. It may also pay to add an extra half-cup of flour to the recipe to prevent it being too runny after adding the potato.

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