I bought these organic bananas the other week -they were massive -I mean seriously huge -so big in fact that I was too embarrassed to walk down the street eating a whole one -yes that big! So I had a couple left that started to get some brown spots -now, I have very few fussy habits when it comes to foods but brown spots on bananas ...even just a smattering of flecks and I start to gag but enough about the giant bananas ;) The base recipe for this is taken from Blazing Salads Cookbook 1 and is pretty healthy overall -honey instead of sugar and also calling for wholemeal flour. It was of my own volition that the cream cheese frosting landed atop the finished product -for balance of course, for balance. I think this makes a great slightly healthy / slightly indulgent birthday cake or weekend coffee break cake or after dinner with a cuppa cha cake or afternoon slump with espresso pick me up cake -ah heck it's just a great cake.

What you need; -makes one loaf tin

120g sunflower margarine -I used butter (room temp)
150g honey
2 eggs
180g wholemeal flour
1 tsp baking powder
80g walnuts (reserve some for the top)
2 bananas -if using giant ones -1 should suffice
200g cream cheese

What you need to do;

turn oven on to 190'C/ Gas 5/ 375'F
grease a 450g loaf tin
cream the butter/ sunflower margarine and honey -using hand beaters or food mixer
beat eggs and add
toast the walnuts gently
roughly chop the bananas and add along with the walnuts
mix the flour and baking powder add to wet mixture
pour into loaf tin and bake for 50-60 mins
when you can stick a skewer in and it comes out clean the cake is cooked -there might be some wetness from the banana
turn onto a wire wrack to cool
mix the cream cheese with a tbs of honey - I like it not too sweet -adjust according to your own taste
spread the frosting on and finish with some walnuts

Eat the cake before word reaches your friends that you've made it...

Do you remember the cartoon - Banana Man a schoolboy named Eric who turned into a super hero when he ate a banana? I used to go out with a guy called Eric (drifting into daydream) but enough about the giant bananas...