Aunt Cennie's Banana Cake-YUMMIEST BEST BANANA CAKE EVER!

1 -1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening (Crisco or other)
1 Tablespoon Oil (crisco or other vegetable oil)
2 eggs
2 cups Flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking Soda
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup buttermilk *just a note-if you don't have buttermilk you can use 1tblsp vinegar and then finish filling up your half cup with regular milk....or just use regular milk :)

1 cup mashed ripe bananas
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Mix Sugar, shortening and oil together, then add eggs,
sift together flour and other dry ingredients and add part of the buttermilk, then dry ingredients to the sugar/shorening mixture,
alternating back and forth between dry ingredients and buttermilk until mixed well.
then add mashed bananas and vanilla

bake 35 minutes at 325degrees
You can bake this in a 9x13 pan or two square or round cake pans and then layer it,
once done
let set and cool before frosting.

You can Frost with a Cream Cheese or Coconut frosting

both recipes are below!

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

1 pack of cream cheese

3 cups powdered sugar

6 tablespoons butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup chopped pecans to sprinkle on top ofthe frosting if desired.

Combine frosting ingredients in a small bowl;mix until well blended.frost cooled cake. sprinkle with remaining nuts.

YUMMY Coconut Topping for banana Cake

Boil these ingredients until thick
over low/medium heat stirring and watching closely so it doesn't scorch
1 cup sugar
1 stick butter
2 egg yolks
1 cup pet milk

once this is thick
add these ingredients and whip until cool
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup coconut
1 tsp vanilla