Banana Spice Cake

by Roma

5 and 1/2 c. flour

4 t. baking powder

2 t. baking soda

2 t. salt

1/2 t. cloves

3 t. cinnamon

1 1/2 t. nutmeg

1 1/2 c. shortening

2 2/3 c. sugar

4 eggs

3 1/2 c. mashed bananas

4 t. vanilla

Combine dry ingredients and set aside.  Cream shortening with sugar.  Add eggs and beat thoroughly.  Add dry ingredients and bananas alternately in small amounts.  Bake in 4 greased and floured loaf pans at 350ºF for 35 minutes.

Frosting:

1/2 c. mashed banana

1/2 t. lemon juice

1/4. c. butter or margarine

3 1/2 c. powdered sugar

Can be topped with grated nuts.

~This is the best recipe ever for using up bananas which are past their prime.  It is a cake, not a bread.  Roma always seemed to have a loaf which she could pull out of the freezer at the last minute.  We discovered it tastes about as good frozen as thawed.