Recipe: Chocolate Banana Cake with Chocolate Fudge Frosting
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This cake will become a often requested family favorite!
Ingredients: 2 cups sugar 1 cup shortening 2 eggs 3 ripe bananas, mashed 1/2 cup cocoa 2 1/2 cups flour 2 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 cup buttermilk 1 cup boiling water Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs and mashed bananas to creamed butter/sugar mixture. In another bowl, sift together dry ingredients. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, alternating with the buttermilk. Mix well. Add in boiling water a bit at a time and mix well. Pour batter into a prepared 9x13 pan, and bake at 300F for 50-60 minutes. Frosting 1 cup white sugar 1/2 cup cocoa 1/2 cup margarine 1/4 cup milk pinch of salt 1 tsp vanilla While the cake is cooling, mixture sugar and cocoa in a saucepan. Add in milk, margarine and salt and cook over low heat. Stir constantly and allow the mixture to come to a boil. Let the mixture boil for 2 minutes without stirring. Remove the mixture from the heat source, and add in the vanilla. Allow the frosting to cool for 20 minutes, before frosting the cake. |
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