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This week Sunday Supper celebrates Grandparents Day! You’re invited to join in the fun!

Whether you have fond memories of cooking or baking with your grandparents or making memories in the kitchen with your grandchildren, I’d love to hear from you!

I’ve been blessed with both.

My Grammy was my rock. She was my buffer when my Mom and I got into it. You know how teens can be!
“Don’t worry, she’ll come around to our way of thinking,” she’d say with a wink.
So true.  I wish I’d have had half her of her confidence.
Strangers saw a sweet, little old woman clad in a colorful cotton dress and apron. White hair combed back and bobby-pinned. Always smiling. The proverbial twinkle in her eye. That’s Gram and me on my first birthday and how I remember her most. I still have that cutting board with the teapot on it that was hanging on her wall.

She was all that but so much more. My Grammy survived the Great Depression, raised 10 kids and helped us 17 grandkids. She could cook anything from soups to chickens in those old enamel coated 4-gallon pots. If an army stopped by, she was ready to feed them!
Grammy always seemed to wear the same aprons and use the same old towels for potholders. Every Christmas I would buy her a new apron or set of tea towels. She smile and thank me but I never seemed to remember ever seeing them in use.
When Gram passed, we found an entire metal cabinet full of unopened packages of aprons, tea towels, potholders and flannel nighties. I guess we all wanted better for her. In typical Grammy style she lived by, “Less is more”.
I strive to be like her. I hope someday my granddaughter and grandson look back at me as fondly.

So today I want to share one of my favorite cakes from Grammy’s recipes.

Chocolate Chip Banana Cake!

Chocolate Chip Banana Cake turns those mushy over-ripe bananas into a moist, delicious dessert! Enjoy the nutritional benefits of bananas as a bonus. Believe it or not but ripe and over ripened bananas are higher in antioxidants and easier to digest than their less ripe cousins.

I had an uncle that lived with my grandmother. My uncle was sickly and had extreme digestion problems. He ate an overly ripe banana with a spoon every day. That was back in the 1970’s when doctor’s advised their patients to eat better to feel better.

I do love bananas in cream pies, breads, Bananas Foster Banana cake is great by itself too. I like it plain or with a handful of chocolate chips thrown in. Of course walnuts work too!

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Chocolate Chip Banana Cake

Yield: 9 to 18 servings

Ingredients

• 2 cups cake flour
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 cup mashed ripe bananas
• 1/3 cup eggs (2 small)
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

• Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Add shortening, bananas and half the milk. Beat 2 minutes. Add egg and rest of milk.. Beat for about 3 minutes until smooth and aerated for a lighter cake.
• Stir in chocolate chips
• Pour into an 8x8-inch greased and floured pan. Bake at 350 until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. (approximately 40 minutes)
• Cool completely in pan on wire rack before removing.

Notes

The more air in the batter produces a lighter cake. Cool completely before cutting.

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