Recipe: Banana Cake

Banana Cake
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...a very old recipe, and extremely yummy. Enjoy.

1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. vanilla
3/4 cup sour milk (you can "sour" the milk with 1 Tbsp. vinegar)
1 cup bananas (I usually just toss two or three bananas in, and it works)
1 cup chopped nuts (I usually use walnuts)

Cream together sugar and butter. Add eggs and beat well. Stir together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately with milk and beat well. Add vanilla, bananas and nuts and beat well.

Pour into greased and floured pans (either a 9x13-inch or 2 (9-inch) square or round pans). Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes or until center of cake springs back when lightly touched. Pour topping on cake while still warm.

TOPPING:
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup mashed bananas (I usually just toss 1 or 2 bananas in; it works just fine)

Beat all ingredients together until smooth and pour over top of cake.

This is one of those recipes where you don't have to be extremely precise. If you like more nuts, add more. If you don't like them, leave 'em out. The amount of bananas I add depends upon how many I have that are getting too ripe for my taste. I made the cake this weekend when I yanked the recipe card out the box. I used plain lowfat yogurt instead of the sour milk. That work great, too.