Noble Banana Cake

I got a bit of an SOS today.
My lovely and incredibly talented friend Danny has just moved to London.
She did all the right pre -move work, got herself a house and a job before she took the big leap from small seaside city to big black boogie metropolis, but the new job broke her and she now needs another less brakey job.
For Danny's leaving 'do' drinks I made her a Banana Cake and this is what the callout was for, well to be precise the call out was for the recipe.

So Danny, beautiful, lovely, talented, ever so funny and incredibly self controlled(see above link to get this bit) Danny, I don't know quite how to say this...... there is no recipe. I make it up. I always do.... But for you I scraped together the bits and pieces that i think go into making this cake... with love x

Firstly and most importantly the banana's have to be blackened and squishy, you can sometimes buy them discounted in 'the shops' or you can do one of two things i like to do. The first is to buy several bananas with the intention of being healthy and replacing all the sugar fuel you eat with a banana, but then leave them in the fruit bowl turning and over ripening all the other fruit you bought and haven't eaten yet either. Or, you can pop one or two in you're bag for the day with the intention of not buying snacks and then by the time you get home they are lovely and squish-sqwoshy.

I make mine in a 2lb (cause it's the only one i have) baking paper lined loaf tin and I pre heat the oven to 180c-200c.

Ingredients:
2 large blacked bananas
120g Butter/Spread
120g Sugar
2 Large Eggs
120g Self Raising Flour
1tsp Baking Powder
And then all the dried fruit and nuts you want to add - i really have no idea how much
I like-
Pecans
Hazelnuts
Sultanas
&
Dried Apricots

Method:
1. Cream the butter/spread together
2. Add the eggs bit by bit, using a spoon of sifted flour if it curdles
3. Sift in the rest of the flour and baking powder and mix well.
4. In a separate bowl mash the bananas to your own lumpy taste
5. Add the bananas, nuts and fruit of your choice to your batter and mix well
6. Pop into the tin and into the oven for around 35 minutes, using the knife test to see when it's done (Remember that you may be putting your knife through a bit of banana or fruit)
7. Take to interview and get fantastic job.

I guess that you'll need to try it out a couple of times and work out what combo you like best or what gives you the best results.... oh, and I mentioned it before but forgot the magic ingredient, you have to add a rather large pinch of love.

Good luck
xx