My kids wanted me to post BLACK BOTTOM UGLY CAKE. It is not fancy but their favorite. The trick is to use ripe bananas. The riper the better since they have become sweet. I have even used bananas that are black.
1/2 cup butter (no substitutes)
1 cup sugar (use 1/2 cup if bananas are black or very ripe)
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups smashed bananas (or 2 large or 3 medium)
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup baking cocoa powder
Microwave butter till melted or very soft. Mix butter and sugar. Mix egg and the rest of the dry ingredients EXCEPT THE COCOA POWDER. Divide the mix. Add the cocoa powder to one half of it (you may have to add a tbsp or so of water to make the consistency about the same). Layer the chocolate cake mix on the bottom of greased/sprayed cake pan. Then layer the yellow/banana cake mix right on top. You can swirl it if you like. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes till knife/toothpick comes out clean. Enjoy. My kids ask/demand it every week and even eat it for breakfast. I usually only use half a cup of sugar and buy additional bananas to make sure they are ripe.
Actually, European doctors used to prescribe “black” bananas for people w/stomach upsets. When you peel them, they’re white inside and very tender and sweet.
“BLACK BOTTOM UGLY CAKE”
13 x 9 pan?