Best Grandmas Banana Date Cake Recipes

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.

GRANDMA'S BANANA CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees; grease and flour a 9 x 11 inch cake pan.
• 2. Cream together butter and sugar.
• 3. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing after each egg.
• 4. Sift together flour, nutmeg OR mace, and salt. Add to wet mixture and mix well.
• 5. Dissolve baking soda in sour milk. (You can add a 1/4 teaspoon of white vinegar to the milk to sour it if you don't have sour milk on hand.) Add to batter.
• 6. Mix in mashed bananas and vanilla.
• 7. Bake in 350 degree oven in a 9 x 11 inch cake pan for 45 minutes. Frost with cream cheese frosting.

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.