Banana Cake

Submitted by Sheynath

"Moist cake with nice banana flavor. Needs no icing."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 1 cake

ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 3⁄4 cup shortening
• 2 1⁄4 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 6 tablespoons buttermilk
• 1 1⁄2 cups mashed bananas

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Sift dry ingredients together, set aside.
3. Cream shortening and sugar.
4. Add eggs and buttermilk to sugar mixture.
5. Combine dry ingredients into wet.
6. When incorporated, stir in mashed banana.
7. Pour batter into a greased, floured tube pan (angel food cake pan).
8. Bake 45-50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
9. Cool slightly, run knife around edges of pan to loosen cake, remove cake from pan.
10. Finish cooling cake on a wire rack.
11. Slice into wedges.

Reviews

[gluzius_9819871]

Made this cake before which was very good. Can I use butter instead old shortening?

 

[Dotty2]

This is a wonderful Banana Bread. I don't often make banana bread in a tube pan but will from here on in. This recipe is moist, nice height and has great flavor. I did put a glaze over the cake. Repeats on this one. Thanks Sheynath for sharing. Recipe swap #27 Aus/NZ

 

[Leslie]

We love Banana Cake, and this one is great! Packs well for my daughter's lunch and doubles as dessert in the evening. Excellent recipe! Made for Aussie Swap :)

 

[Lavender Lynn]

Good and easy is right! I did this exactly according to directions and it came out wonderful, although it baked about ten minutes longer than specified, in a Springform tube pan. DH and DD15 ate a third of the cake while it was still warm. Made for OZ/NZ swap April 2008.

 

[Crafty Lady 13]

Very good and easy cake recipe. The batter seemed a little thick when everything was mixed together so I added a little more buttermilk. I also threw in some chopped pecans and chocolate chips to use up some open bags that I had. I had forgotten that I lent my bundt pan to my MIL, so I made the cake in a 9 x 13 pan. Everything turned out great. Made for April, 2008 Aussie/NZ Swap.