A good friend of mine has her parents in town visiting. I hadn't delivered her March dessert and it happened to be her dad's birthday. It seemed like a great opportunity to make good on what I owed. We settled on banana, walnut, and cream cheese, which naturally lead me to banana walnut cake with
white chocolate cream cheese frosting (the old standby and one of her favourite frostings). For the banana walnut cake, I used
this recipe. She had requested it eggless, so I substituted the eggs for a half cup of applesauce and 1 tsp baking soda. I also subbed the buttermilk for yoghurt (what I had on hand) and threw in a cupful of walnuts. I love banana cake, and its sibling, banana bread, for their versatility and sturdiness. It doesn't seem to matter to a banana cake if you use buttermilk, sour cream or yoghurt, if you threw in an extra half a banana or two, or if you bulked it up with nuts or chocolate chips. It's all good :) The cake, like the eggless banana cupcakes from earlier ago, came out a little pale and sank in the middle. You can't tell because I artfully covered it up with frosting (*^_^*) I was assured that it tasted fine and her parents sent me thanks.
Of course, when baking banana cake, you can't bake just one banana cake. Bananas generally come in bunches of six, and you usually only need three to a cake recipe. So this is mine, with eggs. All mine! Om nom nom nom!
A good friend of mine has her parents in town visiting. I hadn't delivered her March dessert and it happened to be her dad's birthday. It seemed like a great opportunity to make good on what I owed. We settled on banana, walnut, and cream cheese, which naturally lead me to banana walnut cake with white chocolate cream cheese frosting (the old standby and one of her favourite frostings). For the banana walnut cake, I used this recipe. She had requested it eggless, so I substituted the eggs for a half cup of applesauce and 1 tsp baking soda. I also subbed the buttermilk for yoghurt (what I had on hand) and threw in a cupful of walnuts. I love banana cake, and its sibling, banana bread, for their versatility and sturdiness. It doesn't seem to matter to a banana cake if you use buttermilk, sour cream or yoghurt, if you threw in an extra half a banana or two, or if you bulked it up with nuts or chocolate chips. It's all good :) The cake, like the eggless banana cupcakes from earlier ago, came out a little pale and sank in the middle. You can't tell because I artfully covered it up with frosting (*^_^*) I was assured that it tasted fine and her parents sent me thanks.
Of course, when baking banana cake, you can't bake just one banana cake. Bananas generally come in bunches of six, and you usually only need three to a cake recipe. So this is mine, with eggs. All mine! Om nom nom nom!
