Banana Brunch Cake

Kahlua Recipe Book, p. 30

1 cup butter, softened

1 ½ cups granulated sugar

3 ½ cups sifted all-purpose flour

1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2 medium)

½ cup Kahlua

4 large eggs

¼ cup milk

1 Tbsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

¾ cup flaked coconut

¾ cup chopped walnuts

Optional: Sifted powdered sugar

Grease well 10 in. tube pan. Preheat oven 350F. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in flour, ½ cup at a time, with remaining ingredients except coconut and nuts. Beat on low speed until mixture is well blended. On medium speed, beat 2 min., scraping bowl as you beat. 

Enjoy the soothing white noise.

Stir in coconut and nuts. Turn into prepared pan. Bake 45 to 50 min., or until golden brown. Remove from oven; let stand 10 min. 

You will notice that I didn't move the top oven rack up until it was too late.

Invert on cake rack; remove pan. When fully cooled, dust with powdered sugar, if desired.

I omitted the powdered sugar because I was sending this to daycare as a snack and I thought the staff would appreciate me minimizing the collective sugar rush.

My Rating: 4/5 "This was so moist and flavorful! I was happy to see that banana stuff could taste this good without a ton of spices being dumped in. The people I sent this too said the coconut accent was really nice. It's not the prettiest cake, but that's ok. It doesn't have to be Pinterest-worthy to taste good.