Banana Cake

This is the quickest and simplest cake recipe ever. Just blend and bake.

Ingredients:

1. Sugar - 1 cup ( 125 ml )
2. Maida - 1 cup (125 ml)
3. Cooking Oil - 1 cup (125 ml)
4. Baking powder - 3/4 - 1 tsp.
5. Eggs - 2
6. Vanilla essence - 1/2 - 3/4 tsp.
7. Banana - 1 large ripe

Procedure:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
2. Sift together the flour and baking powder.
3. In a mixie, grind the sugar to a powder.
4. Add oil to the powdered sugar in the mixie and blend it till a creamy paste is formed.
5. To the mixie, add the eggs one at a time and whisk. Run the mixie in pulse mode for a few seconds at a time.
6. Add the vanilla essence and banana chunks and blend till a smooth paste is formed.
7. Now, either add the flour little by little to the mixie and quickly blend it by running the mixie or by folding the flour with a ladle.
8. Only if the batter is too thick and does not flow when you ladle it, add very minimal warm milk and whisk again. I didn't have to do this step.
9. Grease and dust a cake tin and pour out the batter into the tin to form a layer of one inch or slightly more. Leave space for the cake to double in size.
10. Bake at 180 degrees C for 25 mins. Check if the cake is done using a knife or fork. Bake for an additional 10 minutes if not done. I baked for 35 minutes.

The cake would be dense, yet soft, not very spongy. The colour would be light brown, like whole wheat bread. This was a Valentine's Day special cake. Hence the heart shape.
Recipe courtesy: Yogita Pimpalkar. The original recipe had 3 eggs, but I didn't want an eggy flavour, so cut down an egg.

I felt that the cake had a little more oil than required. I am going to try this with slightly less oil next time. Also this had a milder flavor of banana. I would like to add another banana to this and try it out.
Please try this out and let me know any variations that worked better for you.