Vintage Recipe Project Banana Cake

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Vintage Banana Cake Recipe

This vintage Banana Cake recipe is the best banana cake I have ever tasted. It is moist and fluffy. If you have been looking for that old fashioned banana cake recipe that your grandmother made this is it!

 This old fashioned Banana Cake recipe comes from The Kitchen Kapers Cook Book. Recipes compiled by The Woman’s Society of Christian Service First Methodist Church of Dover, Ohio.

I did a little extra research and I believe this cookbook could be from as early as 1930. The recipe was submitted by Lulu Exline.

Vintage Banana Cake Recipe

This vintage cookbook belonged to my husband’s grandmother. My mother in law knowing how much I love old vintage recipes was kind enough to pass all of her families cookbooks and recipes on to me.

I’ve shared a number of them here in the Vintage Recipe Project. You can find more vintage recipes by clicking on the Vintage recipes link in the toolbar above.

Original Recipe as written in the cookbook

1 ¼ cup white sugar
1 cup sour or buttermilk
½ cup butter
1 tsp soda
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 ½ cups flour
2 bananas
1 tsp baking powder

Mash bananas fine, set aside. Cream butter and sugar add eggs, add bananas, dissolve soda in buttermilk add with flour alternately to which baking powder has been added.

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The above recipe is copied as is. There were no baking instructions.

I made a couple of adjustments to the recipe. I increased the bananas to 3 instead of 2. I also added ½ tsp of salt.

Modern day adjustments and mixing directions below.

The recipe will fill 2 nine inch cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

You could also use loaf pans or make cupcakes with this recipe. You will have to adjust the cooking times of course.

This was really one of the best recipes for banana cake that I’ve ever tasted. The cake was fluffy and moist with a great banana flavor.

I used about a half a can of chocolate frosting for the filling and left the top and sides unfrosted. This will be my go-to recipe for banana bread, muffins or cake from now on.

Vintage Banana Cake Recipe

Banana Cake with a Chocolate frosting filling

My version of this vintage Banana Cake recipe.

I made some slight changes to the vintage recipe above. Same ingredients, with the exception that I added one more banana and ½ tsp of salt.

How to make Vintage Banana Cake Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 ¼ cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup sour or buttermilk
• ½ cup butter
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 3 large overripe bananas
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Prepare two 9 inch cake pans by greasing them with solid shortening and flouring them.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3. Mix flour with all of the dry ingredients and whisk to incorporate.
4. Mash 3 bananas in a medium-sized bowl.
5. Cream the butter and sugar together.
6. Add eggs to the butter and sugar one at a time and beat until fluffy.
7. Add buttermilk and vanilla to the bananas and mix well.
8. Fold banana mixture into the sugar, and eggs and mix well.
9. Slowly fold flour mixture into the other ingredients.
10. Fold until all ingredients are moist.
11. Pour batter into the prepared cake pans.
12. Bake for 30 minutes or until the center spring back.

Print the Vintage Recipe Project Banana Cake Recipe Below

The Vintage Recipe Project: Banana Cake

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• Author: Arlene Mobley - Flour On My Face
• Prep Time: 15 Minutes
• Cook Time: 30 minutes
• Total Time: 45 minutes
• Yield: 8 servings 1x
• Category: Cake
• Method: Baked
• Cuisine: American

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Description

This old-fashioned vintage banana cake recipe is light and fluffy just like when Grandma made it. This vintage cake recipe is from the 1940’s and found in a cookbook from Dover Ohio

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Ingredients

• 1 ¼ cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup sour or buttermilk
• ½ cup butter
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 3 bananas
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

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Instructions

1. Prepare two 9 inch cake pans by greasing them with solid shortening and flouring them.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3. Mix flour with all of the dry ingredients and whisk to incorporate.
4. Mash 3 bananas in a medium sized bowl.
5. Cream the butter and sugar.
6. Add eggs to the butter and sugar one at a time and beat until fluffy.
7. Add buttermilk and vanilla to the bananas and mix well.
8. Fold banana mixture into the sugar, butter and eggs and mix well.
9. Slowly fold flour mixture into the other ingredients.
10. Fold until all ingredients are moist.
11. Pour batter into the prepared cake pans.
12. Bake for 30 minutes or until the center spring back.

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Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1 Slice
• Calories: 456

Keywords: vintage cake recipe, 1940's cake recipe, old fashioned banana cake recipe

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