Birthday Cake!!

Hi everyone, Sandie here!!
Today I have a very delicious cake to share with you, that I bake quite regularly and is a firm favourite with my daughter!  So much so that she asked for this cake for her birthday last year.  The cake is a Chocolate and Banana cake, it can be made in either two 7" tins and then sandwiched together or you can split the mixture between two 1lb loaf tins.
I scrapped a very girly layout with the photo of the cake, seeing as it was made to celebrate a very girly birthday!!

And here is the recipe:-

100g Plain Chocolate

150g Softened butter

175g Caster Sugar

3 Eggs, beaten

175g Self Raising Flour

1 level teaspoon Baking Powder

25g Cocoa Powder

2 large bananas, peeled and mashed

•  Heat the oven to 180 or Gas 4
• Butter and line either two loaf tins or two 7" round tins
• Melt the chocolate in a small glass bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, stir until smooth and then remove from the heat
• Cream together the softened butter and caster sugar until pale and fluffy
• Gradually add the egg, beating well between each addition
• Sift together the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder, fold in using a large metal spoon
• Add the mashed banana and melted chocolate and mix well
• Divide the mixture between the two tin
• Bake for about 45 minutes or until a skewer insterted in the middle comes out clean
• Cool on a rack
• If you've made your cake in two 7" tins, make chocolate buttercream to sandwich them together.
ENJOY!!