Grandmas Banana Date Cake Recipes

GRANDMA'S BANANA DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease well a 9 by 5 by 3 inch loaf pan.
• Sift flour, baking powder, soda, and salt.
• In large bowl with electrix mixer at high speed, beat butter, granulated sugar, eggs, and vanilla, occasionally scraping side of bowl with scraper, until light and fluffy- about 3 minutes.
• In small bowl, combine banana and buttermilk.
• At low speed, beat in flour mixture (in fourths) alternately with banana mixture in 3rds- about 1 minute.
• Stir in dates and nuts.
• Bake 1 hour and 10 or 15 minutes.
• Cool on rack 15 minutes in pan, then turn out on rack until cool.
• Dust with confectioner's sugar.

MY GRANNY'S BANANA CAKE

Steps:

• CAKE.
• in large bowl, cream sugar, shortening and eggs until light and fluffy.
• stir in remaining ingredients as listed.
• pour into greased and floured 13x9 pan.
• bake 15 minuted at 400, then 20 minutes at 350.
• cake will remain moist.
• while cake is cooking, blend all ingredients for icing (except vanilla) in small saucepan.
• ICING.
• bring all ingredients to a boil, stirring constantly.
• when mixture reaches full rolling boil, boil for one minute.
• let cool.
• add vanilla.
• beat and spread on warm cake.

GRAMMA BERTHA'S BANANA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a 10 inch Bundt pan with non-stick cooking spray.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Beat in the sliced bananas, sour cream and baking soda. Beat in the flour. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.