Bananas anyone

Even with as much as I love bananas, there are times when we have bananas that are too ripe to eat.  I love that too.  We always make banana bread with our leftover bananas, but this time I decided to try something different.  Banana cake is what came to mind this time.  Sounded good to me, so cake it was.  The cake recipe was basically the same as making bread only with the addition of sour milk or buttermilk.  I took 2/3 cup of milk and added 2 teaspoons of lemon juice to make the milk sour.  Sift together 2 1/3 cups of flour, 1 2/3 cup of sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of soda, and 1 teaspoon of salt.  Add 2/3 cup of shortening, 2/3 cup of mashed bananas and the milk; mix.  Add 2 eggs and beat for 2 minutes to aerate the cake mix.  Put this into two greased and floured cake pans and cook for about 35 minutes.

This is how I did it, I think next time I will grease and flower the pans and line each pan with waxed paper.  Whenever I  make a cake that I intend to be a showcase I always line the pan with wax paper.  This helps the cake come out without sticking and tearing.  Most times a cake will come out without sticking anyway, but there are times when it does not and if there is no time to try again wax paper is used.  Wax paper is a MUST when making this cake.  It fell apart coming out of the pan.  I am hoping the wax paper will help keep it together long enough to ice it.

I love cream cheese icing and used it on the banana cake.  Good choice for sure.  The two flavors were great together.

There are no pictures of this cake, it looked like a mountainous heap of  some kind white lumpy substance unrecognizable as cake.  But it was so moist and delicious I wish I had taken a picture of it.  Now all that I have to photograph is the crumbs on an empty plate.  My mom had to hide it from my nephew so that she could have another piece later when she was ready for her coffee.

If you try this cake you will not be disappointed with the flavor and the moistness.  I have not remade it using wax paper, but give the wax paper a try.  I am hoping that it will hold it together so that the finished product at lease resembles cake.