Dreamy Banana Nut Cake

Banana cake is my hubby's favorite cake.

Yesterday, I thought of baking a different recipe of Banana Cake. It's a little airy though than the previous recipes I used to bake.
But just the same, it is good especially with an added cinnamon on top.

Here's the recipe.

The ingredients are the ff:

• 2 cups sifted all purpose flour
• 2-1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 2 eggs well beaten
• 1 cup mashed ripe banana
• 1 cup margarine or butter
• 3/4 cup sugar

The procedure:

• Cream margarine and sugar.
  
• Add eggs one at a time.
  
• Sift together dry ingredients and add alternately with bananas to the first mixture, beating hard after each addition.
• Place mixture in a greased cake pan.
• Sprinkle with topping and bake in moderate oven.

Topping:

• 4 Tbsp. sugar, 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, 4 Tbsp. chopped nuts
• Mix together and sprinkle over cake.
  

Orange Chiffon Cake

I often use this recipe because it requires simple ingredients, it is not
so sweet and it is so simple to do.

• 2-1/4 cups sifted cake flour; 1-1/2 cups sugar; 3 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup salad oil; 5 egg yolks; 3/4 cup orange juice; 1 cup egg whites; 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar.
  

Follow this procedure:

• Sift dry ingredients into mixing bowl.
  
• Make a well then add salad oil, egg yolks and orange juice. Beat until smooth.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine egg whites and cream of tartar.
• Beat until they form very stiff peaks.
• Pour egg-yolk batter in thin stream over entire surface of egg whites.
• Gently cut and fold just until blended.
• Bake in ungreased 10-inch tube pan in slow oven, 325 degrees for 55 minutes.
• Then increase heat to 350 degrees and bake 10 minutes more.
• Invert and cool thoroughly.
  

My first Wedding Cake

A little more than 2 decades ago, I gave away a wedding cake as a gift to a young couple who decided to get married with just a simple ceremony and a simple celebration.

I baked the cake for them, my first attempt in making a wedding cake. It took me 2 days to finish it, from preparation of ingredients to baking the cakes, to icing and decorating it until it was finished and ready for presentation.

I used the Buttercake recipe for the cakes. Boiled Frosting and Royal Icing for covering the cakes and decorations.
(A big 'Thanks' to my good friend Sandra for helping me out with the 'Royal Icing' decorations.)