BANANA CAKE

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BANANA CAKE

Ingredients

¼ pound butter or ½ cup shortening or margarine

1½ cups sugar

1 cup mashed banana (about 2 medium bananas)

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups cake flour or all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup sour milk or sour cream (optional just milk of your choice)

Method

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter and lightly flour a 9 inch square cake pan. Cream the butter or shortening, slowly add the sugar, and beat until light. Add the banana, eggs, and vanilla and beat well. Mix the flour, baking soda, and salt, add to the first mixture , and blend. Slowly add the sour milk or sour cream and beat until well blended. Spread in the pan and bake for about 45 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes before turning out onto a rack. Split the cake and fill with Banana Cream Filling and frost with Portsmouth Frosting.

Optional: Bake in four mini loaf pans for 30 - 35 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean.

Banana Cake was made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman

Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman

Recipe derived from The Fannie Farmer CookBook, the chapter on “Cakes”, page 626 of the Twelfth Edition.

Banana Cake posting

https://recipemarketing.blogspot.com/2013/05/banana-cake.html

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