Banana Cake

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup White Sugar
1/2 cup Unsalted Butter
2 Eggs
4 Ripe Bananas (mashed)
2 cups All Purpose Flour
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup Walnuts and/or Raisins
1 tsp. Vanilla Extract



COOKING INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9x13 inch cake pan, or a 1 dozen cupcake pan.

2. Cream together butter and sugar.

3. Add eggs, bananas, flour, baking soda, salt, nuts and raisins, and vanilla. Mix thoroughly using a mixer and pour batter into pan.

4. Bake at 375 degrees F for 30 minutes. Cool and serve.

NOTES:

This is probably my most abused recipe. In the absence of nothing to do, I tried teaching myself to cook. This is the very first pastry recipe that I took interest in and thus I found the above ingredients, which I sourced out online only that I cannot recall where.

This recipe came out good, especially with the raisins, I prefer putting more raisins than walnuts as it compliments the taste of the banana. I am still in the lookout for the perfect banana cake recipe, I'd like to discover the exact recipe that of Red Ribbon, its soft, its creamy, and its rich. I have tried adding 1 more banana to this original recipe in the hope that I could copy Red Ribbon's product, but it only came out dry that I could almost taste the baking soda.

I prefer cooking this in a cupcake pan rather than in a cake or loaf pan, the latter would leave the middle portion of your cake uncooked.

At this time I'd settle for this recipe as everybody at home seems to be okay with its taste, but soon as I discover the improvisation, I will share the recipe right away.

For presentation's sake, you could add a whipped cream on top of the cupcake. Happy cooking!