Banana Cake

Dickens bought some unripened bananas a few days ago, hoping that when we are all no longer coughing, it will be time to eat them. Unfortunately, the bananas ripened faster than we hoped.

So, instead of banana bread, I opted for banana cake. This cake is moist with the help from the fruit and the smell is just like banana bread. I also frosted the cake to make it look more like a dessert than breakfast bread.

It tasted so good that everyone had seconds. I think you and family will enjoy it as much as mine!

Banana Cake

Preheat oven at 350 F. Lightly grease a 9 inch spring form cake pan and set aside.

1/2 cup of soften butter
1 1/2 cup of sugar
2 eggs
2 cups of flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
3/4 tsp baking soda (add to mashed bananas)
4 ripe bananas mashed

Cream butter, sugar and eggs. Add vanilla. Mix well.
In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, salt
Add 1/3 of flour mixture to butter/eggs mixture. Add 1/2 of the milk. Mix well.
Repeat until all the flour and milk has been added.
Stir in banana mixture and mix well.

Pour into spring form pan and bake for 45 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Let the cake cool completely before spreading on your choice of icing or frosting.

Apple Pie Cake

How can we not celebrate the autumn season without making some sort of dessert with apples? I fiddled between apple pie, crisp and cake. Then I found a recipe that had the best of both worlds...apple pie cake. Who would have thought about that?

Picture to follow but here is my version of the recipe.

Apple Pie Cake

Preheat oven to 350 F.

2 eggs
2 cups of granulated sugar
1 cup of oil (I used corn oil, the original recipe asked for vegetable oil)
1 tsp of vanilla
2 cups of all purpose flour
2 tsp of cinnamon
1/2 each of baking powder, baking soda and salt
4 cups of apples (the recipe called for 5 cups but I found it to be more apple and no cake)
1 tsp of orange juice

Peel and core the apples. Cut into bit size pieces.
Add orange juice to apples to prevent from browning.

Wet: In one bowl, beat eggs, sugar. oil and vanilla. Set aside
Dry: In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.
Fold in the apples.

Pour batter into a 9 inch springform cake pan. Be sure to place parchment paper on the bottom of the cake pan and lightly grease the sides.

Bake for approx. 50-60 mins or until an inserted toothpick comes out dry.

Your house will smell sooo goood.
Serves 12.