Apple Banana Cake

Submitted by Mary Leverington

"Very moist, very delicious. The recipe was given to me by a friend."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 30mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• Wet Ingrendients

• 4 cups of peeled cored and grated apples (generous)
• 2 mashed bananas
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• 1⁄2 cup of chopped walnuts or 1/2 cup pecans (optional)

• Dry Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Combine all the wet ingredients in large bowl and mix well.
3. Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl and mix well.
4. Add dry to wet ingredients and mix thoroughly.
5. Pour into an UNgreased 9"x13" pan.
6. Bake for 1 hour.

Reviews

[Jodi B.]

If it sounds good to you, trust me, it tastes even better!! If you have really sweet apples (I used 3 MacIntosh & 3 Granny Smith), you can cut back on the sugar - I used 1 1/2 cups and it tasted sweet and awesome.

 

[NancyF]

This was delicious cake and very easy to put together. I used the golden delicious apples as well as pecans, and with the addition of the banana, it was a wonderfully moist cake but not soggy. We loved it.

 

[Vicki in AZ]

After reading Charishma's review, I just had to try this. We're going to a potluck this evening and I needed an easy dessert. This smelled delicious baking and tastes even better. I used golden delicious apples just because I had them and pecans. This is definitely a keeper. I'm taking whipped cream, but it really doesn't need anything else.

 

[Charishma_Ramchandani]

The CHAMPION of all cakes is this cake that absolutely is 'TO DIE FOR'! This is the FIRST FRESH FRUIT CAKE I have ever baked in my whole life! Let me tell you the ADVENTURE I had with the baking of this heavenly cake this evening... I decided around 4:50pm to make this. I set off with my egg beater, bowl and all, by 5pm. These are the steps I followed to make the cake mixture: 1. I took a large mixing bowl and beat the eggs, one at a time, until light and fluffy, in it. 2. Next, I added sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon and creamed it all well together. 3. Then, I added oil( I used Minara Sunflower Cooking Oil) and all-purpose flour, alternately, and mixed it well. 4. Next in line, I tossed in the walnuts and stirred in the essence. 5. Then, in another bowl, I mashed 2 chopped bananas and added this to the above-made mixture. 6. Last of all, I grated the apples(I used 6 of them- delicious red apples) and added them to the mixture. I did not find it necessary to core the apples. It was easy to grate them once peeled, using my grater. I mixed this sinfully divine cake batter extremely well together. At this point of time, the mixture was sooooo tempting, that I forgot my promises to myself of not to eat between meals, and, I put in my finger into the mixture and picked up a good bit of this mixture. The next second, as you can guess, it had made it's way successfully to the chamber of my mouth:) YUMMY! That very second I knew I'd hit the jackpot! Well then, in my excitement to get this done quickly, I greased a cake tin. I did not read "UNgreased" in your recipe because I was sooooo excited and to reach upto this point, it had taken me an hour(it was 6pm by now). I normally dont bake in my oven. I use my AMC Dutch Oven to bake all my breads and cakes and they all come out beautifully, so, as usual, I put the Dutch Oven on the stove and I was to start pouring this yummy mix into the cake tin, when, the doorbell rang. I ran off to get the door. My cook had arrived. Once he enters, I don't cook:) So, I covered the cake mixture and kept it in my refrigerator. Well, then, by 9pm my cook left home. I got into the kitchen, took out this bowl of the cake mixture, oh my! It was smelling so good!! I wanted to eat it all right away then and there! God bless the powers that stopped me from doing that because of what I got 3 hours from 9pm..read on:) I thawed the cake mixture for 30 minutes. At 9:30pm, I poured it into the greased cake tin and baked it. It took 2.5 hours to bake in my Dutch Oven on very low flame! (My dad jokingly teased me saying that I got to pay for the coming month's gas cylinder supply! LOL):) Ofcourse, the naughty girl that I am, I went about 5 times and opened the lid up, did the toothpick test, no regrets, it wasn't done, as everytime I did the test, I got to lick a yummy bit of this divine and truly addictive cake:) At dot 12am, the alarm on my Dutch Oven went off! Mom called out to me saying that the entire house was smelling WONDERFUL! As I got closer to my kitchen, Oh my, the smell, was getting stronger and stronger... FINALLY- I lifted the lid off the cake tin, checked the cake, YES, DONE! WOW! YUM! That's all I whispered to myself:) Got the cake off the flame, out of the cake tin, and once it was out, it smelt heavenly. My parents said it smells soooooooo good, my bro., the most picky eater alive, said he wanted it all and I am NOT to share it with anyone:) I'll confess I ate a bit before I took it to them all:) You can't blame me now, having heard my story, can You? :-) Thank You for sharing this truly 500000000+ stars deserving recipe! Please do convey my "VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU" to your friend, i.e., who gave you this recipe.

 

[Lesley L.]

So good! Very moist and light and fluffy. Used only one cup of sugar, and reduced cook time to 35 minutes for 9x13 pan