Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
happy monkey banana cake
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Happy Monkey Banana Cake
Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened
3 cups white sugar
2 cups mashed bananas [use heavily speckled bananas]
4 eggs, beaten
3 and 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons bakin' soda
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 cup chopped pecans
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 350�.
2) Grease and flour three 9 inch round cake pans.
3) Cream the butter with the sugar 'til light and fluffy.
4) Add bananas and mix 'til smooth.
5) Stir in the eggs.
6) Combine the flour and bakin' soda.
7) Add the dry ingredients to the banana mixture alternately with
the buttermilk, beginnin' and endin' with the flour mixture.
8) Mix thoroughly after each addition.
9) Stir in vanilla extract, orange juice, and pecans.
10) Pour the batter into the prepared pans.
11) Bake for thirty-five to forty minutes,
or 'til a wooden toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
12) Cool the layers in the pans for ten minutes, then remove
from the pans and finish coolin' completely on wire racks.
13) Frost the cake with ***Cream Cheese Frostin' and decorate the top
with whole pecans.
Cream Cheese Frostin'
Ingredients:
1 package [8 ounce size] of cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 package [16 ounce size] confectioners' sugar, sifted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
whole pecans for decoration
Instructions:
1) Combine the cream cheese and butter, beatin' 'til smooth.
2) Add powdered sugar and vanilla extract. Beat until light and fluffy.
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