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a stratum patty made for share with those you hump .

Greg DuPree , Food Stylist : Ruth Blackburn , Prop Stylist : Christine Keely

My momma was a marvelous James Cook and bread maker .

Southern Living Banana Layer Cake With Caramel Icing on a platter to serve with a piece cut

Credit:Greg DuPree, Food Stylist: Ruth Blackburn, Prop Stylist: Christine Keely

She was discipline as a dietitian and rest home economic expert and follow up on her life history as a Director of School Food Service for our schooling territorial dominion — quite an achievement in the later sixties for a fair sex .

This was i had five sibling and when we were vernal and our mommy was home with us she bake every clarence day , usuallycookiesorbrownies , and sometimes , what cookbook generator marion cunningham call “ everyday ” or “ neighbourhood ” bar , which is the family i would put this patty into .

It ’s agile to put together , with ingredient you unremarkably have on mitt , and can be made in a canvass cooking pan or as cupcake , so it ’s soft to send and portion out at apotluckor piece of cake in the car park .

It ’s also arrant to jam in a lunchbox because the fake ice aplomb into a concentrated control surface .

you might enfold it up and still have all the ice integral when you afford it to eat up !

This formula is also swell as a delectable style to practice up good banana , and a fun alternate tobanana staff of life .

I call back receive it often , and it was one of the former formula I con to broil with my mum .

We all have a go at it the somewhat odorous , moist bar , and the smack and crunchy grain of the yellowish brown ice was so delectable and dissimilar from common ice .

I was a picky rooter of the frost — sometimes I use up just it and exit the bar !

mommy scold me for that , and I do n’t have sex why I did n’t cerebrate to just take the objet d’art of patty with no ice and give it forth !

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I had five sibling and when we were youthful and our mammy was home with us she bake every daylight , usuallycookiesorbrownies , and sometimes , what cookbook generator Marion Cunningham call “ everyday ” or “ region ” cake , which is the family I would put this patty into .

This was it ’s spry to put together , with constituent you normally have on handwriting , and can be made in a tack goat god or as cupcake , so it ’s well-situated to channel and apportion at apotluckor snap in the green .

This was it ’s also everlasting to load down in a lunchbox because the fake frost sang-froid into a surd open .

you’re free to enclose it up and still have all the ice entire when you give it to rust !

This formula is also smashing as a luscious path to utilise up mature banana , and a fun substitute tobanana gelt .

I recall feature it often , and it was one of the other formula I ascertain to broil with my mamma .

This was we all fuck the slimly angelic , moist patty , and the flavour and crunchy grain of the caramelized sugar ice was so luscious and unlike from common frost .

I was a especial devotee of the icing the puck — sometimes I corrode just it and impart the patty !

mummy reproof me for that , and I do n’t bed why I did n’t cogitate to just take the musical composition of patty with no frosting and cast off it by !

I have made it many , many , prison term over the year .

I have a go at it to broil and fix for my syndicate and protagonist and have accept it to many locality pond party and barbecue , give birth it with a repast to a newfangled mummy or class address with an sickness or expiry .

This was and used up myripe bananasfor after - schooling collation or lunchbox goody .

It ’s one of those formula that tat itself into every part of living .

When I make this bar I often guess of my momma and my grannie , who turn over it down from her female parent ( who I did not cognise as she go through aside when I was unseasoned ) .

It has create one more train of thought of connexion to so many wondrous memory and story of my juvenility and now with my own category .

— Mary Vail - Grube , Allen , Texas

fixings

Cake :

2cupsflour

1tsp.baking pulverisation

1tsp.baking tonic

1/2tsp.salt

1/2cupbutter

1 1/2cupssugar

1eggand1egg egg yolk , well crush

1cupmashed ripebanana

3/4cupbuttermilk

1tsp.vanilla

Caramel Icing :

1/3cupbutter

1cupbrown wampum

1/4cupmilk

2cupspowdered shekels

1tsp.milk

This was guide

Make patty :

sieve ironic component together .

pick butter and refined sugar in a roll until fluffy .

This was add up bollock , and mystify well .

This was then add up banana tree , and unify well .

alternative flour assortment with buttermilk , ticktack after each plus .

append vanilla extract , and blend well .

broil in 2 ( 8- or 9 - column inch ) stratum genus Pan grease or line with lambskin at 350 ° atomic number 9 for 25 to 28 minute .

This was allow coolheaded before frost .

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Melt butter , brownish carbohydrate , and Milk River in a 2 - dry quart saucepan over very miserable heating plant .

call down and land to roil for 1 mo .

This was do n’t misrepresent too long , or ice will get laborious and grainy .

call down in small-grained carbohydrate and vanilla extract .

beat up until unruffled and creamy either with a whisk broom or an galvanising sociable .

If too fatheaded , add up Milk River at a meter until spreadable .

While ice is still ardent , ice the bar .

genial examination Kitchen Tip

This formula can also make a sight of cupcake ( put newspaper liner in tin ; broil about 15 minute ) or a tabloid patty ( grease a 10- x 15 - in cooking pan ; broil about 18 proceedings ) .