Some recipes are made to be exact... this isn’t one of them.

This is my “throw-together” cake, the kind that happens when there are ripe bananas on the bench and a quiet afternoon at home. No measuring, just a bit of this and a bit of that and somehow it always turns out perfectly.

It’s soft, lightly sweet, and filled with the comfort of simple ingredients. The sort of cake you make for friends dropping by, or just because you feel like baking.

Ingredients

• 3 large ripe bananas, mashed

• 1 egg

• About 1 cup coconut

• ½ cup chia seeds

• Zest and a squeeze of juice from 1 lemon

• 1 cup Greek yoghurt

• About ½ cup sugar

• 100 g melted butter

• 2 cups self-raising flour

Method

1. Mash the bananas in a mixing bowl.

2. Add all remaining ingredients and mix with a big wooden spoon until combined.

3. Pour into a greased Bundt tin, sprinkle sugar on top, and bake at 180 °C until golden and firm.

Simple, homely, and made with a good dash of love.

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