Banana Pecan Oatmeal Cake

Submitted by Ceezie

"This moist and delicious cake has a crunchy caramel-pecan topping. This recipe is from Patricia Mitchell's"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 17
• Serves: 12-16

ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup uncooked oatmeal
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1⁄2 cup shortening
• 1 1⁄4 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1⁄2 cups mashed ripe bananas (the riper the better)
• 3⁄4 cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• Topping

• 1⁄4 cup butter
• 3⁄4 cup lightly packed brown sugar
• 1⁄3 cup evaporated milk
• 1 1⁄2 cups flaked coconut
• 3⁄4 cup chopped pecans

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F Grease a 9x13-inch pan.
2. Combine the flour, oatmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. Mix well and set aside.
3. At medium speed of an electric mixer, cream together the shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
4. At low speed, add the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk and mashed bananas, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Beat only until ingredients are blended; do not overbeat. Stir in the vanilla extract.
5. Spread evenly in the prepared pan, and bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
6. Allow cake to cool for 10 minutes.

7. Topping:

8. In a small saucepan, melt the butter. Add the brown sugar, milk, coconut and pecans, and stir well. (Or, melt the butter in the microwave and combine with the remaining ingredients.) Spread the topping evenly over the cake.
9. Place cake in a preheated broiler about 6 inches from the heat. Broil for 2 minutes or until golden brown.

Reviews

[retasews]

I made some changes to this recipe and it turned out very well. I substituted butter for the shortening, used about 1/4 cup brown sugar with the sugar total (ran out of sugar in the middle of the process), and only had about 3/4 cup of coconut for the scrumptious topping. Just had some for afternoon tea and liked that it was not too sweet. Now to bring some samples to give away at my senior center lunch tomorrow.

 

[Dienia B.]

wow wowow this is a pretty tasty cake the topping bumped it out of the ball park . its very good and if your looking at this you should try it .