Friday, May 7, 2010

Banana Cake Loaf

I forgot to take pictures of this one so sorry about that. The recipe is pretty straight forward though. The trickiest part for me was the sour milk cause I had no idea what that was but it's wicked easy.

-3 cups of flour
-1 2/3 cups sugar
-2 1/4 tsp baking powder
-1 1/4 tsp baking soda
-1 tsp salt
-2/3 cup oil
-2/3 cups sour milk (add 1 tsp of vinegar to the 2/3 cup of milk)
-3 eggs
-4 mashed bananas
-1/2 cup sour cream

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grease and flour two loaf pans or one 9x13 baking dish (I use the 9x13 dish).
3. Measure and mix all ingredients. I start with the dry one's first and mix them all up so it's mixed pretty equally. Then I add all the wet ingredients on top one by one and mix together once I've got them all in the bowl.
4. Blend 1/2 minute on slow speed then 3 minutes on high.
5. Pour evenly into pans and bake for approx. 45-50 minutes of until center is done.

For the Topping:
(For cake top once it's done being baked. Maybe let it cool for 10-15 minutes before putting the top on)

This isn't your traditional icing top so it's not going to be a frosting you smooth over the top like the picture (sorry that was kind of misleading). Instead you will mix all the ingredients together to make a crumbly kind of texture and then crumble it over the top. Don't worry too much about how it looks, I just try to get it evenly so most of the cake top is covered. The cool thing is when it's done cooking it kind of spreads out in tiny star shapes.

Double recipe--

-3/4 cup brown sugar
-2 Tbsp. butter (30 ml)
-1 cup coconut
-2 Tbsp. milk

Spread over top and toast under low broil just until the butter and sugar start to get brown. Make sure to watch under your broiler, don't want it to burn! Doesn't taste near as good! Enjoy! :)