Banana Pecan Snackin’ Cake

When I was a kid, snackin’ cakes were all the rage-so much so that you could even buy snackin’ cake mixes. This kind of cake is really moist, doesn’t need frosting, is inexpensive to make and goes together faster than you can preheat your oven!

Ingredients:

2 large, really ripe bananas
2 eggs
½ cup canola oil
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon butter flavoring (optional, but it adds a great depth of flavor-like a butter-pecan kind of thing)
1½ cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped pecans

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray an 8 inch cake pan with cooking spray. In a mixing bowl, combine the bananas, eggs, oil, sugar, vanilla and butter flavoring. Beat with an electric mixer until thoroughly combined.

In a mixing bowl stir the flour, baking soda and salt together. Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients a bit at a time. Once those ingredients are thoroughly combined, stir in the pecans.

Pour the batter into the cake pan and bake for 35 minutes until the top and sides are golden and a toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean. Let cool and then cut into 9 big squares or 12 small ones.