Luscious Banana Layer Cake Recipe - Cooking Index
2 cups | 125g / 4.4oz | Cake flour - sifted |
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Baking powder |
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Soda |
1/2 teaspoon | 2.5ml | Salt |
1/2 cup | 99g / 3.5oz | Butter - or shortening |
1 1/2 cups | 297g / 10oz | Sugar |
1 | Egg + 1 yolk - well beaten | |
1 cup | 237ml | Banana - mashed |
3/4 cup | 177ml | Milk - sour |
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Vanilla |
Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, soda and salt and sift together three times.
Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy.
Add eggs and beat well; then add bananas and beat again.
Add flour to creamed mixture, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition, until smooth. Add vanilla.
Bake in two greased pans, 8 x 8 x 2", in moderate oven, 375F for 25 minutes.
Spread Lemon Filling (see recipe) between layers and Orange Lemon Frosting (see recipe) on top and sides of cake.
Kate Smith Collection 1940 Published by General Foods Corp.
Source:
Bon Apetit November 1984
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