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Banana: Calling All Cooks Banana Cake

Source of Recipe

Hannah Wilson,, featured on Calling All Cooks, Food TV Network show


List of Ingredients

1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup shortening
2 eggs, separated
2 or 3 bananas, mashed
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup sour milk or buttermilk
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking power
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla

FROSTING:
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup butter
1 package cook and serve vanilla pudding
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla


Recipe

Mix sugar and shortening until creamy. Add egg yolks and bananas, beat thoroughly. Dissolve soda in sour milk. Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Mix alternately. Add vanilla. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into batter. Pour into a buttered 9-inch round cake. Bake in a preheated 350ºF oven for 40 minutes.

For frosting, cream the sugar, shortening and butter until light and fluffy. Cook vanilla pudding with milk until very thick. Cool and add to butter mixture. Mix with electric mixer at high speed for 15 minutes or until it is not grainy. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla. Ice the cake with the icing.