Banana Cake

Recipe Rating:	32 Ratings4
Categories:	Cakes, For Kids
Collections:	2012 Member's Choice
Keyword:	banana
Serves:	10
Prep Time:	15 Min
Cook Time:	35 Min

Ingredients

CAKE
2 stick	butter
2 c	sugar
4	eggs
1 c	milk
3 c	flour
3 tsp	baking powder
1 tsp	mexican vanilla
SYRUP
2 1/2 c	sugar
1 c	water
1	lemon juiced
12	bananas sliced

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Audra LeNormand

Lightly Salted

Liberty, TX (pop. 8,397)

sslady77575

Member Since Oct 2010

Audra's Notes:

My Aunt Maxine gave me this recipe and it is so good and moist. The recipes is over 100 years old. I've so cherished her giving it to me. She only made it on special occasions and everyone looked forward to it.

Comments from the Test Kitchen:

It's hard to imagine not falling passionately in love with this moist, delicious cake! All of the flavors blend perfectly...with just the right punch of banana. Yum!

Directions

Cake: Preheat over to 350 degrees.

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and mix well. Add milk and mix well. Add flour and baking powder; mix well. Finally, add Mexican vanilla and mix well.

Grease & flour two 9 inch round cake pans. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Cool on wire racks.

Syrup: While cake is baking, combine sugar and water in a medium saucepan.
Heat until syrup-y, then add lemon; allow to cool.

Place one cake on a cake platter and prick holes in it with a fork. Place half of the sliced bananas on 1st layer & pour 1/2 of syrup over the bananas and cake.
Place 2nd cake layer on top of the 1st. Prick holes, layer bananas, then use the last of the syrup.

Keep in the refrigerator... as it will last longer and stay moist. Remember, this recipe is over a 100 years old. Makes me wonder how they kept it fresh back then!

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Stephanie Dodd skeen

Feb 18, 2012

Wonder how this would work with a 9 x 13" cake? I would like to try it; sounds delish!

Audra LeNormand sslady77575

Feb 28, 2012

Stephnie......
It would work fine useing a sheet pan 9 X 13" Oh it is so moist you can't believe it.So pleased you want to try it.

Robert Glynn SGM

Mar 18, 2012

Audra: I like your syrup from scratch, and I think it would be great with a Banana Foster type Icing. Layered to me is the way to go with a recipe like this. My 87 year young sister and I will give this a try, with our wrinkles, and I bet it will be fantastic! When we get through experimenting we will send you a note. As you might guess when you get two 85+ yrs old together they will probaly deliver something original. Maybe!! bhobbs