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Ingredients
- Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 2 bananas
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tbsp. baking powder ( sounds like a ridiculous amount but it is correct )
- 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
- 1 cup milk ( I used 2% but you can use any kind )
Preparation
Step 1
1
You need a round cake pan, and I'd suggest non-stick. I used a 9" one.
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Put the cake pan on the stove, at a low heat and put in 1 tbsp. of the butter and the brown sugar. Let this melt and take a spatula and mix together until melted and then spread it evenly over the bottom. Take off the heat. Use hot mitts because the pan gets really hot on the stove.
3
Cut 1/2 bananas into 1/4" slices. Place them on the bottom of the cake pan over the brown sugar concoction. I layered a few of them but got the entire 1 1/2 bananas in there. Save the other 1/2.
4
Beat the remaining butter in a mixer with 1 1/2 cups sugar.
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Add vanilla and eggs and beat until smooth. Add in the other 1/2 of the banana (mush it first)
6
Sift together the flour with the baking powder and salt (or just use a fork to mix it up). Add this mixture to the bowl alternatively with the milk. It went back and forth about 3 times. It is a bit dense when finished.
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Spoon this into the cake pan. Bake at 350 for about an hour. It gets puffy. Make sure you insert a toothpick or a long wooden stick in the cake and make sure it comes out smooth before taking it out of the oven. It might have had to bake a little longer than an hour but I forgot to check. It seemed longer.
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Let it cool for about 20 minutes and flip. Voila. Really good...and added bonus would be a little whipped cream