Wot....no digestives?

January 25th - I am no baker! I can only watch in awe at contestants in the Great British Bake Off do there stuff - how do they do it? But....give me a packet of digestives and I can transform them into delicious tiffin, marshmallow log, Malteser cake, truffles for Christmas....I am queen of digestive 'baking' (I use the word very loosely!)  I have one go-to all-in-one cake recipe that I have adapted over the years when I've needed to make birthday cakes, cup cakes, fairy cakes or trifle cake and I switch between plain 'Victoria-sandwich' type and 'chocolate'.  But that's it.  However another week was up....the resolution needed addressing......and I had some very old bananas lurking in the fruit bowl.  The usual banana smoothie was not an option but I decided to brace myself and make a cake.  All the cookbooks got hauled out and Nigel Slater's Chocolate Muscovado Banana Cake sounded fairly straightforward. I like Nigel Slater - keen on good ingredients, not fussy and he likes flinging things together, though probably a tad more successfully than me.  I had all the ingredients, and even a loaf tin liner, but not muscovado sugar.  What is it with all those sugars?  I have caster sugar in the cupboard all the time...and happened to have some demerara left over from Christmas. Was that the reason the cake burned round the edges or was it the oven?  Anyhow I'd probably only give it 3/10 for looks, though the middle bit got wolfed down.