Banana Upside-down Cake

by Josephine

Rating: 5 ★

Banana Upside-down Cake
Ingredients
  • • 1 cup butter, at room temperature
  • • 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
  • • 2 pieces ripe bananas, peeled, sliced 1/4 inch diagonally
  • • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • • 2 large eggs
  • • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • • 1 tbsp. baking powder
  • • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • • 1 cup CARNATION Evap
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Melt 1/2 cup butter in a saucepan. Remove from fire and stir in brown sugar. Cook until sugar has melted and pour into a 9" x 2" round pan. Arrange banana slices in concentric circles atop sugar mixture.
  2. For cake, beat sugar and remaining 1/2 cup butter. Add in eggs one at a time beating well until smooth. Stir in vanilla.
  3. Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to butter alternately with CARNATION Evap. Pour batter over bananas and bake 1 hour or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.