What to do with three ripe bananas. You can eat them or….make banana cakes. Much more fun. It was my ‘very important baking day’ anyway, and I had already made pie, cookies and bread to feed the entire town, so a few more cakes was the perfect way to finish.

I quickly leafed trough a few books and decided on the one Nigella suggested in her role as kitchen Goddess, but she got from Andrew Schloss and his ‘One-Pot Cakes’: Banana cakes with cherries and white chocolate, sounds like a good match to me. And I love one-pot recipes, the simplicity of it, and out comes something wonderful! That is, if it works. This recipe does.

As for the dried cherries, that’s a bit of a problem in Holland. I have not been able to find them. So, I used a can of amarene (wild Italian) cherries. They have a very sweet and distinctive taste. They didn’t disappoint in this recipe. Only one remark (for next time): more cherries! 40 grams is not enough. My husband said he had to take a bike from one cherry to the next…