Recipe

Swingin Granny Beer Cake Recipe

	Sparow64 / All my dishes 1 year, 9 months ago A cross between Banana Bread and Banana Cake. A favorite at our house. Found this recipe online several years ago. Prep:15m Cook:60m Servings:8	Sparow64
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Ingredients

Cake

1 1/2 cups sugar

2/3 cup shortening

2 eggs

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. soda

2 tsp. nutmeg

1 tsp. cloves

1 tsp. cinnamon

2 3/4 cups flour

1 (12 oz) can beer

1 1/4 cups mashed bananas

1 1/2 cups chopped dates (optional)

1/2 cup nuts (optional)

1 tsp. vanilla

Icing:

1 stick butter or oleo

1 (3 oz) pkg cream cheese

1 1/2 cups nuts (optional)

1/2 box powdered sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

Directions

Cake

Cream together sugar, shortening and eggs.

Stir salt, soda, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon and flour together in a separate bowl.

Add beer, bananas, dates, nuts and vanilla to creamed mixture.

Add dry ingredients last and mix well.

Pour batter into a greased and floured cake pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes.

Test to be sure it's done.

Depending on the type of beer you use, it may need to bake up to 1 hour.

Icing

Mix all ingredients together for the icing.

Spread over the cake after it has cooled.

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Comments

hayleesgrandma 1 year, 9 months ago said:
Oh my gosh, bookmarking this one.

notyourmomma 1 year, 9 months ago said:
Oh, heck yeah! None of my grannies would try this, but my mom certainly would have.....I can see the leavening from the beer and banana making an awesome cake. This is rockin'. Love the spice combo and the date addition. Rates the high five from me. Toodles.

kismet 1 year, 9 months ago said:
Like cooking with beer,the,yeast hops flavor is wonderful. Thanks

jett2whit 1 year, 9 months ago said:
Golly! Granny sure knows what sounds good!! Jett

danadooley 1 year, 9 months ago said:
I like your granny already lol I love banana bread, I love banana cake, I love beer and I think I'm gonna love this. Great post. Thanks :)

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