Today's culinary confection

[mattblakk]

Today's culinary confection:

Or should I say, the world's most complicated bananna cake.

Grease and flour a 9 or 10 inch tube pan. (if a 10 inch tube pan is used double the recipe and a high cake will result)

In a mising bowl combine these ingredients:

2 cups flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

(ingredients for next section: 1 c. butter, 1 c. sugar, 2 egg yolks)

In a seperate bowl, cream 1 cup of butter until soft, gradually add 1 cup of granulated sugar, beating constantly. Continue to beat until the mixture is light and fluffy.

One at a time, add egg yolks beating well after each addition.

In a seperate bowl combine these ingredients and mix them thoroughly:

1 cup mashed very ripe bananna pulp, mashed
1/3 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla

Gradually combine the we and dry ingredients, beginning and ending with the dry, beat the batter well after eah addition.

In a bowl, beat 2 egg whites until soft mounds form, gradually add 1/2 cup sugar and continue beating until the egg whites are stiff. Fold them into the batter.

Spoon the batter into the prepared pan and bake the bananna cake at 350 F for 50 minutes or until a knife inserted at the center comes out clean. Remove the cake from the overn and allow to cool for 10 minutes before inverting the pan.

Comments

[airshipjones.livejournal.com]

Or, just leave out the eggs and give to the kid instead of putting in the oven and watch in awe as the chaos and mess ensues....

[mattblakk.livejournal.com]

That would be more fun if the recipe were for salt dough, and easier to clean, for sure.

[thingie.livejournal.com]

oh! banana cake! I do so love banana cake, and banana bread, and banana moon pies.

Bananas up the wazoo

[kosseferal.livejournal.com]

Figuratively speaking...

Tom bought out all the tired bananas at the store, but I don't think I'll ever get to making any bread; I'm off to hang out at my lover's place & thence Sunday to picket Odious Fred..... and the teen is already narfing the bananas. Won't be any left by Sunday.

This recipe sure seems plump. We bake minus eggs & dairy so even an ordinary recipe needs adjusting, ha.

Re: Bananas up the wazoo

[mattblakk.livejournal.com]

There's a great tofutti sour cream substitute that I really like, and can't one replace eggs with apple sauce and some baking powder?

I would think it would be a lot easier without the eggs.

I can't eat the dairy, either, and Blake is Mr. No Dairy Soy diet himself, who doesn't care for meat at all. (though an exception is greedily made for IHOP scrambled eggs with diced ham. . . but never at home. . .no telling with kids. I"m convinced the IHOP food must be made out of some artificial substance)

Any good meat-free protein ideas for mr. picky eater man?

Re: Bananas up the wazoo

[kosseferal.livejournal.com]

Forget the tofutti stuff. I mean, if you like the convenvience of it, great, but one can do just as well with Mori-ni tofu. It's different from other tofu, because it is made in the aseptic containers that you buy it in, so it doesn't need to be refrigerated. And the flavor is not like any other tofu. It does not taste beany. The consistency is also way different, more like pudding than the usual nigari-precipitated tofu. It works supremely well for frostings, pudding, smoothies and "sour cream" substitute. One box of that stuff, about a tablespoon of cider vinegar, and a pinch of salt, all together in a blender until smooth. It thickens when refrigerated.

http://www.morinu.com/ is the product web site.

Apple sauce can work to replace the moistness of eggs in some recipes, like cookies and cakes. There is also an egg sub caled Ener-G, which some clever person over at vegsource.com has re-created in the kitchen, http://www.vegsource.com/talk/recipes/messages/68584.html

Tahini also works, but imparts a distinct flavor which may or may not fit in e recipe. Ground flax seed, has an abundance of EFAs that are really beneficial for kids (and people on T...makes for a happy liver). One tablespoon of ground flax, and three tablespoons of water is equivalent to one egg. This really doesn't have much of a flavor, in comparison. Tom has also had wonderful results using (of all thing) reconstituted pureed prunes as an egg substitute. He made some brownies with that stuff once which were just decadent. And I am crazy for good chocolate anything---there's my endorsement. I will ask him just how he did it. The problem with asking me about the cooking stuff is that we seldom follow recipes anymore after cooking vegan for so long...we just use experience to guide the creation and it generally works fine, but sure doesn't lend itself to giving out duplicatable recipes.
If we were standing in the same room discussing this it would be different. Darnit.

I have never been in an IHOP. Strange but true. Or a MickyD's. My oldest was in Burger King once upon a time, when they had a debut of a meatless burger at a branch in Watkins Glen, NY, home of Farm Sanctuary.

Meat-free protein ideas...I tried going to vegsource.com to cheat a little, and cut-n-paste, but the soy-free receipes proved elusive. I know they are out there, and I wouldn't worry about mr. picky eater man wasting away. I have one kid who is also a picky eater. He has been going at least four years on god-awful peanut butter on whole wheat. Yuck. He won't eat noodles with sauce, or macaroni and soy cheese, or green beans, none of those. He does like nuts, potatoes, dried fruit, baked things, and really fresh veggies from the garden (although not tomatoes). He loves junk food, to my dismay. He's borderline ADHD, and that junk doesn't help it.

I'll rack my brains and think about what sort of stuff works for him. Waffles seem to be a perennial fav., though they are eggless. ...Hm. I'll get back to you on that request.

[kaileo.livejournal.com]

And we can drop by and try it when?

[mattblakk.livejournal.com]

As soon as I get my own place I promise to invite everyone to dinner. Of course, depending where that is it might involve a weekend stay. . .

an interesting reverie to entertain

[kosseferal.livejournal.com]

The last time I travelled was last Feb., to go to TrueSpirit. And that's been it. I got asked if I was going this year but I cannot afford it.

I love travelling but the cost is prohibitive.

Still, it is fun to think about.