Banana Nut Layer Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups cake flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup mashed banana (2 large ones)
• 2 egg yolks (slightly beaten)
• 2 egg whites (stiffly beaten)
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (4 oz.)
• chocolate frosting (canned/ready made)

Recipe

• 1 in a mixing bowl, sift flour, salt& baking soda together.
• 2 in another large mixing bowl add butter or margerine& mix until creamy, soft& smooth.
• 3 gradually add sugar& mix until fluffy.
• 4 beat in the vanilla& slightly beaten egg yolks.
• 5 add the mashed bananas.
• 6 mix the tablespoon of vinegar into the 1/2 cup of milk to sour the milk.
• 7 add the flour& sour milk& beat real good.
• 8 add the nuts,& fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.
• 9 grease& flour 2 cake pans,& pour the mix evenly into the 2 pans.
• 10 bake in pre-heated 350 degree oven 35 to 40 minutes.
• 11 remove from oven& place one of the layers onto a cake plate.
• 12 generously smear the frosting atop the first layer& then place the second layer on top of the frosted first layer.
• 13 generously frost the entire cake on the top& completely around the sides.