Great Great Granny's Banana Cake

This is one of the kids favorite things I make. Now it is also Josh's. It was my granny's, mother's, mom's banana cake recipe. My mom makes it the best, but I'm getting better: It was our Valentine Dessert. I thought I'd share it because it's really good and a favorite.

Ingredients

2-3 very ripe bananas mashed

3/4 Cup Crisco

1 3/4 cup Sugar

2 Cups Flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/3 Cup of sour milk

2 tsp Vanilla

1cup of chopped pecans *optional*

***If you don't have sour milk add 1tsp of vinegar to your 1/3 cup of milk before you start and it'll be ready by the time you need to add it in.

Directions:

Cream Crisco and Sugar together, add eggs mix in good, add bananas, vanilla, and milk mix well, then sift in dry ingredients. In a 9 x 13 cake pan sprayed with Pam, bake at 350 degrees until it tests wet done.

The cupcakes I made took 25 minutes, the extra I put in a small cake pan took about 35 minutes. I start testing at 25 minutes and test every 3 to 5 minutes until it test done in the center.

Cool Ice with home made Butter Cream Icing

This is how I do it, it's how my mom taught me.

1/2 bag of powdered sugar

1 stick of butter softened

1 cap of vanilla

1-3 caps of milk to make it a nice workable texture