Saturday, May 9, 2009

Banana Cake

~Heather also blogs at HEATHER LESSITER/It's All for the Best and The Fat Bottomed Girl.~

Banana cake is a favorite in my hubby's family and the recipe is super easy! It isn't exactly "from scratch" since you're kind of doctoring up a cake mix, but it tastes like it's from scratch and that's the key. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do.

BANANA CAKE
1 yellow cake mix
1 1/4 cups ripe, mashed bananas (about 3)
1 cup sour* milk
1/4 cup cold coffee
2 eggs

Grease and flour cake pan(s); set aside. preheat oven to 350 (325 for glass pan).

Beat all ingredients together for 2 minutes on high speed. Pour batter into prepared pan(s).

Bake: 9 X 13 pan- 40 to 45 min or 2 8in. or 9in. pans for 32 to 35 min.

Frost with your favorite type of frosting. I use this recipe.

*To sour milk, add 1 Tablespoon vinegar to 1 cup milk and let stand for about 10 minutes.

4 comments:

  1. Oh, no. My diet doesn't need this cake, but holy god this is going to be made this week regardless. YUM.

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  2. If your bananas are getting too ripe but there aren't enough for a recipe, freeze them. Just peel and add to a ziplock bag and plop in the freezer. You can open the bag to add more bananas and then when you have enough for a recipe, just thaw them about half-way and use them. (When I thawed them all the way, there was a lot of liquid that collected in the baggie.)

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  3. This looks YUM-O!

    Any suggestions for substitutes for the coffee? Water, maybe?

    thanks!

    Sylvia C.

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  4. I am typically a horrible baker, but made this with my brother and everyone LOVED it. Thanks for sharing!

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