BANANA COCONUT CAKE

Preheat your oven to 180 deg C . For this recipe you will need a 26cm round spring form pan . Grease and flour the spring form pan . Pour 125 ml of milk ( room temp ) into a small bowl and add 1 tsp of baking powder to dissolve in it . In a separate bowl beat together 3 eggs ( room temp ). Place 150 gm of butter / marg ( room temp )with 100gm of demerara sugar in the bowl of your electric mixer ( using the whisk attachment )and mix till light and fluffy . In another bowl mix together 250 gm of plain flour with 3 tsp of baking powder. Mash 3-4 very ripe bananas ( 300gm ) and fold in 100gm of coconut flakes in a separate bowl. Now it's time to bring the recipe together . Add all ingredients to the the butter and sugar mix in the bowl of your electric mixture , BUT mix with a wooden spoon . The batter should be heavy and thick . Pile the batter into the prepared pan and bake on the lower rack of your oven for 50 minutes. Pierce with a skewer , when the skewer comes out clean the cake is done , otherwise bake for a little longer . Remove from the oven , let cool in the pan for 10 minutes and then remove to a serving plate.