Banana Cake

Ingredients

 * ½ cup butter 1 stick
 * 1 cup sugar
 * 2 eggs
 * 3 ripe bananas puréed
 * 2 cups flour
 * ½ tsp nutmeg
 * 1 tsp baking soda
 * ½ cup cashew nuts chopped

Meringue

 * 4 egg whites
 * 1 cup sugar
 * 2 tbsp light rum

Directions

 * 1) Cream butter and sugar; beat in eggs one at a time.
 * 2) Fold in mashed bananas and flour sifted with soda and nutmeg.
 * 3) Add cashew nuts.
 * 4) Bake about 50 minutes in lined, greased cake tin.

Meringue

 * 1) Beat egg whites, add sugar and rum gradually and continue beating until mixture holds a peak.

Zosha's notes
Skip the "lining", just butter and flour. Generally a cake tin would mean an 8" round cake pan. You could make it in a loaf pan as well.

The meringue is obviously part of the cake, but it doesn't say what you are supposed to do with it. I suspect that it is one of those things you are supposed to know. So here is my guess. Spread the meringue after the cake has cooked and cooled and bake a little while longer.