Banana Cake

Ingredients:

 

2 eggs
1 1/4 cups white sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 Bananas
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)

 

Method:

 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 13 x 9 inch pan.
2. Sift together flour, salt and baking powder.
3. In a large bowl, beat eggs until lemon colored; beat in sugar and oil. Mix dry ingredients into mixture mix well. Add bananas, vanilla extract and beat the bater until mixed well. Pour batter into prepared pan.
4. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 to 20 minutes, then flip onto rack to finish cooling.

Apple Dapple Cake

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar

1 ½ cups corn oil (use 1 cup oil and 1/2 cup milk for low fat)

3 eggs (or equivalent Egg whites)

3 cups un-sifted all-purpose flour

2 cups chopped pecans (or Walnuts)

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

3 cups diced apples

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 tsp cinnamon - optional (I perfer it)

Method:

GLAZE

1 cup dark brown (or golden brown) sugar 

¼ pound butter
½ cup heavy cream

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Combine sugar and oil and beat well. Add eggs one at a time. Sift dry ingredients and stir into egg mixture. Beat in apples, nuts and vanilla. Pour into a buttered springform tube pan (I used a bundt pan but have also tried an angel food cake pan) and bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in the center come out clean (1 ¼ hours with bundt pan) (45 min with 9 X 13 in pan in my oven). Cool the cake for approximately 10 – 15 minutes and remove from pan. Turn upside down on a wire rack with a plate underneath the rack.

Combine glaze ingredients and boil for 3 minutes. Spoon the glaze over the cake. The excess glaze will fall to the plate below and can be re-spooned over the cake until the entire glaze hardens.
Cake can be made with out the glaze and served with ice cream.
It freezes well also.