Mr. Banana Cake

Banana Cake Recipe
This is monumental!

My first cake - Banana Cake.  I can say that this is officially the first cake I've ever made from scratch.  Initial thought is - boy thats a lot of mixing bowls!  So there's one bowl for the banana's to be mashed in, one bowl for the dry ingredients, one bowl for the wet ingredients, another bowl for the buttermilk and the last bowl is for the frosting.  Oh and by the way yes I made the frosting from scratch too which is also a first!

So I put my apron on and off I went.  So glad I have my Kitchen Aid blender - not sure how much fun this would have been without it. Man that thing is awesome!  Fun fact about the recipe I used - it cooks on a lower temperature for a longer time and then when its done you put it in the freezer for a rapid cool down.  Neat idea but I'll have to make some more cakes before I can determine if its really worth a different cooking method than normal.

Overall the experience was really fun.  Anything with banana's is delicious in my book so it was a win from the start.  I followed the recipe exactly and it wasn't hard, just a bit time consuming.  I can only imagine how much more time it would have taken if you were actually decorating the cake too for a birthday or something.   Great recipe to have on hand though as a flip from the traditional yellow or chocolate cake. 

As far as the taste - awesome!  I did great and even my husband and mom agreed that it was yummy.  They've even volunteered to be taste testers for future creations - isn't that so gracious of them?!  Also - I didn't end up having much time to decorate, so I didn't get to use my frosting tools, oh well....next time.

So a success I would say on the first go around.  Lets see how round 2 does....stay tuned!