Sakina's Banana Cake With With Semolina

This is my Aunt Sakina's recipe. It is an excellent banana snack cake which uses semolina instead of flour but you wont even know the difference it is so light and fluffy and jam packed with banana and flavour. Do give it a try you wont be disappointed! It makes a huge 9x13-inch pan cake and can be halved successfully. It does not require icing. Lovely for tea-time.

• Ready In: 2 hrs 30 mins
• Serves: 6-8

Ingredients

• 250  g butter or 250  g margarine
• 2  cups sugar
• 4  eggs
• 2  cups semolina
• 1⁄2 teaspoon mixed spice
• 1  teaspoon ground cardamom
• 2  teaspoons baking powder (not soda)
• 2  cups coconut
• 1⁄2 cup  warm milk
• 6 -8  bananas, mashed (used 8 if your bananas are smallish)
•  poppy seed, for sprinkling

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
2. Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
3. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Beat in eggs one at time.
5. Add semolina and let mixture stand for one and half hours.
6. This step is very important. After standing stir rest of ingredients in until well blended.
7. Pour into you baking dish, sprinkle with seeds and bake for 20-30 min or until a skewer comes out clean.