Banana Cake
By: Melissa Peterman
Published: Friday, December 10, 2010 - 1:02am

Ingredients




1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1  egg
1 1/2 cups flour
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 mashed ripe bananas
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 pinch salt

Preparation

1 Preheat oven to 350 F.
Dissolve 1 teaspoon baking soda in 2 tablespoons of milk and set aside.
  2 Cream butter and sugar in a medium mixing bowl.  3 Add egg and baking soda/milk mixture to the mixing bowl.  4 Add bananas and mix well. Add dry ingredients and vanilla essence.
 5 Pour batter into a greased square pan, cupcake or loaf pan. 6 Bake in an 8-inch square pan in the oven at (350F or 180C) for 25-30 minutes or until a knife or toothpick comes out dry. It may be necessary to cover the cake with foil half way through to avoid over-browning. 7 Ice with favorite icing.

About


Chocolate cream cheese frosting is pretty incredible with this cake. A 9x11 cake pan will make banana bars, instead of a tall cake.