Banana Spice Snack Cake

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 9
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened (or vegetable shortening)
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 bananas, ripe, mashed
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, unbleached
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 coat a 8-inch square baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• 3 in a large mixing bowl, with electric mixer, cream butter (or shortening) and brown sugar. beat in egg, buttermilk, vanilla, and mashed banana until blended.
• 4 in a bowl, combine dry ingredients and spices.
• 5 mix the dry ingredients into the butter mixture until moistened. do not overbeat.
• 6 pour batter into prepared pan and spread evenly.
• 7 bake 25-30 minutes, or until a wooden skewer inserted into middle of cake comes out clean.
• 8 cool in pan on wire rack for about 20 minutes.
• 9 serve warm, or room temperature.