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Chocolate Banana Cake
To 1 package Monarch Chocolate Cake Mix, add 1½ cups mashed bananas and ½ teaspoon baking powder. Mix 4–6 minutes.
Bake in 8” layer cake pans, bottoms lined with wax paper, for 25 minutes at 375°F, or in 8” square cake pan for 45 minutes at 350°F.
Chocolate Banana Icing
Cream ½ cup butter or margarine and ½ cup mashed bananas.
Add gradually ⅔ cup cocoa and 2½ cups icing sugar. Cream until smooth.
Frost top and sides and use as filling for layer cake.
To decorate, press diagonal banana slices (which have been dipped in orange juice to prevent discoloring) into sides of cake about 1" apart. Arrange slices on top in flower pattern.
Credits:
Chocolate banana cake - monarch advertisement - The Monarch brand has a longstanding history in the American food industry, dating back to the 1850s.
Irish coffee - Fun with Coffee was published in 1956 by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
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