The Banana Cake of All Banana Cakes

100g olive oil
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mashed banana (about 3 bananas)
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 cups plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarb soda
pinch salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup milk
Grease and flour a 20cm springform tin and preheat oven to moderate 180C.
Prepare the crumble topping.
In a separate bowl combine olive oil and sugar then beat in eggs, one at a time. Then add the mashed bananas and vanilla extract.
Sift all dry ingredients together and add to mixture in two batches, alternating with the milk.
Pour into the prepared springform pan and spin to evenly distribute the mixture. This eliminates a cake being higher on on side than the other. Sprinkle the crumble topping over the cake mixture and press it down lightly.
Bake for 45 mins or until cake is cooked through.
Allow to cool before removing from tin.
Crumble topping
35g butter, melted
3 tbsp walnuts, chopped
3 tbsp brown sugar
3 tbsp plain flour
1/2 tsp bicarb soda
1 tsp cinnamon
Mix butter into dry ingredients until well combined. Sprinkle mixture over cake before baking, and press lightly into cake batter.

Old Testament Bible Cake

10oz. 1 Kings 4:22, flour.
8oz. Juges 5:25, butter.
8oz. Jeremiah 6:20, brown sugar.
8oz. Samuel 30:12, raisins.
4oz. (2 ground and 2 split) Numbers 17:8, almonds.
1 tbsp. 1 Samuel 14:25, honey or syrup.
2 tbsp. Judges 4:19, milk
1 tsp. Amos 4:5, baking powder.
A pinch of Leviticus 2:13, salt
3 Jeremiah 17:11 eggs.
2 level tsp. 2 Chronicles 9:9, ground spice.
Sieve flour, salt and ground spice, add 2oz. of ground almonds.
Cream together butter and sugar and beat eggs in mixture one at a time.
Add honey or syrup, milk and rasins.
Add flour, salt and spice. Put into a round cake tin 8" diameter or 7" square tin line with double thickness of greasproof paper.
Sprinkle split or flaked almonds on top of cake.
Bake 1.75 - 2 hours. 350f.. 180c.. gas mark 4.
Recipe by Firefighter: Neil Sanderson...Cumbria Fire Service, England UK (Retired Firefighter)
This is the website http://www.firehousechef.com/1edition/