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The Fair Trade Cook Book
The FAIRTRADE COOKBOOK
Fair Trade Recipes for a Fairer World


Banana Cake

Country of origin: Bangladesh

Simple recipe for a banana flavoured treat.

Ingredients

200 gm self raising flour
150 gm margarine
150 gm FAIRTRADE Caster Sugar
2 large ripe FAIRTRADE bananas
10 ml vanilla essence
3 hens eggs
FAIRTRADE Sources
Bananas
Sugar

Method

Preparation
Mash the bananas with a fork and mix in the sugar.
Add the margarine, eggs, vanilla and half of the flour and mix.
Blend this mixture into the remaining flour.

Cooking
Line a 15 cm cake tin with brown paper.
Pour in the cake mix and bake for 45 minutes at Gas Mark 3.

To serve

Allow to cool before turning out onto a cake rack and slicing.

Variation

Insert a whole banana into the mixture just before baking.