Recipe: Banana Cake with Sea Foam Icing (loaf cake)

BANANA CAKE WITH SEA FOAM ICING

6 tablespoons sour cream
1 teaspoon baking soda
2/3 cup butter, softened
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 egg yolks
1 cup mashed bananas
1 cup chopped nuts
2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 egg whites, beaten stiff
Sea Foam Icing (recipe follows)

Dissolve baking soda in 6 tablespoons sour cream; set aside.

Cream butter and sugar together. Beat in egg yolks and add sour cream-soda mixture. Stir in bananas and nuts; set aside.

Sift together flour and baking powder; add to creamed mixture. Add vanilla. Fold in egg whites.

Bake in greased loaf pan for 50-60 minutes at 350 degrees F. Remove from pan and cool on rack.

Frost cooled cake with Sea Foam Icing.

SEA FOAM ICING

1 1/4 cups light brown sugar
5 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1 large egg white
1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix all ingredients for the icing except vanilla in top of double boiler. Cook over boiling water, beating constantly until mixture stands in peaks, about 7 minutes. Add vanilla and spread on cake.

From: Cooking With the Groundhog, Punxsutawney Hospital Auxiliary
Source: Best of the Best from Pennsylvania: Selected Recipes from Pennsylvania's Favorite Cookbooks by Quail Ridge Press