These are great and come from A Taste of Kosher. I made half and got six, like the recipe stated. They baked in 15 or 16 minutes. The only negative about them is that they're extremely sweet! They could have used half the amount of sugar because bananas seem to get sweeter as they ripen. I will definitely make these again and I'll use half the sugar. I added ground toasted pecans and 1/4 t. of cinnamon for half the recipe.
I give these 4.5 stars.
This comes from Barefeet in the Kitchen. I turned it into an ice cream cake. The ice cream is very good, nice and creamy. I used far, far less vanilla extract than called for, just 1/2 t. and I think it could have used less. It's also very sweet and could have used more salt. Like the recipe stated, it made four cups. I reserved about 3/4 c. of it to spread on top of the cake like it was frosting. The ice cream took 25 minutes in my Hamilton Beach ice cream maker and the bowl was in the freezer beforehand for 26 hours but required about 20 hours for my particular brand.
I grade it an A- because it needs more salt to balance out the incredible sweetness and the amount of vanilla we're to use, one whole tablespoon, would have ruined this.
For the cake part I used half a box of Betty Crocker Devil's Food Cake and baked it in a standard 9"x5" 2 qt. loaf pan. I messed up the three layers because I was too impatient to chill the cake before slicing into layers and they crumbled badly in areas, especially the middle layer. I was so disgusted with myself that I omitted the fudge sauce and ground almonds that I was to drizzle on each layer of cake. When the cake cooled it shrunk away from the sides of the pan. When I spread the just-made/soft serve ice cream between the layers it went down between the cake and the pan so the finished cake looks like I frosted it, but I didn't, just the top.
The Food Lion (grocery store) brand heavy whipping cream that I used cost just $1.65 for 2 cups and came from a 1 quart container. The half box of cake mix was just .75 cents. I don't know the cost of sugar and 1 c. milk but it couldn't have been much. The whole cake was probably around $3-$3.50 to make!
