RFCJ RECIPE ARCHIVE
Posted by : Brian Mailman Cake, Sour Cream & Spice, Simply Marbelous - dairy
Simply Marbelous! Well, with Shavuout right around the corner, here's a dairy _non-cheesecake_ recipe! I like it because it's not cloyingly sweet and besides, it's my own recipe. Well, combined from several others, but I'm calling it "mine" anyway. I just made it last night, as a matter of fact. Serves a horde. Freezes well. SIMPLY MARBLEOUS SOUR CREAM/SPICE CAKE 3 somewhat overripe bananas - the more somewhat overripe the better 3 eggs 1/2 lb. butter 1 cup sugar 1/2 pint sour cream 3 teaspoons [YES, 3] baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon lemon juice 3 cups flour TOPPING: 1/4 cup brown sugar 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 cup chopped walnuts Preheat oven to 325 F. Sift together the baking powder, baking soda, and flour. Set aside. Mash the bananas. Cream butter and add sugar and eggs (1 at a time). Add mashed bananas. When well mixed, alternate adding the flour mixture and sour cream to the butter mixture. Pour half of the batter into a greased 12" springform* pan. Sprinkle on 1/2 topping mix, and cover with the remaining batter. OK. Call it "middling" mix, for those of you who need grammatically correct recipes. Schlep a spatula through the batter in sort of an "S" shape, also lifting, then pushing spatula down at the same time. Sprinkle remaining topping over batter. Bake for 55 minutes (cake may be done at 45 minutes; test with thin-bladed knife or toothpick to be sure). Edges will be pulling away from the sides of the pan. Let cool and run knife around edge of cake and remove sides of the pan. If desired, carefully loosen cake from the pan bottom and remove to holiday plate. *There are some cakes, such as angel food or cheesecakes, that have the kind of texture such that they would rip in taking them out of the pan. So you use a pan where you take _it_ away from the cake. B/
