1/2 c Butter; (or Margarine)
2 c Flour
1 ts Each Baking powder & Soda
1/2 ts Salt
1 1/3 c Sugar
1/3 c Buttermilk NOTE
3 Ripe bananas mashed; (If
-small bananas use 4) (up to
-4)
2 Eggs
3/4 c Walnuts ground
1 ts Vanilla essence
5 Bananas; Cut if half in
-their length. (up to 6)
TOPPING
1/4 c Butter soft
3/4 c Brown sugar; Firmly packed
1 c Coconut flaked
1 1/2 Tabls Milk
Source: From my mother with love & more. Family recipe
Note…If you do not have Buttermilk, Use milk , Add 1 Tabl of lemon juice
and wait for 5 minutes or more.
In the Food Processor put the first 5 Ingredients. Work to fine
crumbs.Transfer to a big mixing bowl.Add Walnuts & mix.
In another bowl, Beat lightly the eggs,add the buttermilk, mashed bananas
and vanilla. Mix, and add to the dry ingredients. Mix again until well
blended.
Spray pam or butter a 9/13 inch pan. Pour the mixing, and arrange on top in
rows the half bananas.
Bake in preheated 375 F hot oven for 20 minutes, or until cake just begins
to pull from sides of pan.Take out of oven .Cover cake evenly with the
topping.
Topping: Mix together all the topping Ingrediaents.
Continue and bake for another 20-30 minutes.
Serve warm or cold.
Yields
18 Servings