Banana cake from the rice cooker

Although fruit can be quite expensive to buy in Japan, bananas are normally the cheapest you can get. Our local supermarket sometimes even has very good deals were you can buy large amounts of bananas (15-20) at a time for really cheap. Too good a deal not to buy! But we do end up eating a lot of bananas...
So, we have been trying different banana-recipes, and off course we also had to mix it with our favorite cake recipe. It turned out the be a really delicious cake, with the banana giving the cake a nice soft, smooth texture and sweet taste. Just like our other recipes, the cake is really easy baked (steamed) using the rice cooker. Absolutely fail-proof!

Ingredients (makes a cake with approximately 19cm diameter, and 3 cm height):

• 125 gr flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 50 ml oil
• 100 ml milk
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 or 3 bananas

First, mix all ingredients (except for the bananas) together. Make sure the batter is smooth.

Mixing the batter

Then, you add the bananas. Normally we just 'break' the banana into small pieces and mix it in the batter. No need to make it completely smooth, the banana-pieces should still easily be visible

Batter with the banana pieces mixed in

 Put the batter in the rice cooker, put it on cake-setting and let it bake for 30 minutes. (or what your own rice cooker requires) After the rice cooker has finished, wait until the pan and the cake has cooled down. Then you can turn over the pan and with a little shake the cake will come out perfectly.

Banana cake from the rice cooker