I made a swirled banana cake this weekend. I found I had extra time this since my husband and I are childless. Well, for 5 days anyway. Let me explain, my 3 kids left yesterday to stay with my in-laws for five days. My in-laws are saints aren’t they? We’ll see how they feel by the end of the week!
Funny, how when you tell people your kids will be gone for several days, they give you a funny smile and a wink. I actually overheard someone ask my husband if he should expect baby number 4 after this! What is wrong with people??? Is that all they think about??? What I think about is that I will have 5 days without a chauffeur schedule-I won’t be driving anyone anywhere! That’s 5 days without getting after someone to clean up. 5 days without convincing someone to finish their dinner. That’s 5 days with eating whatever we want to eat, when we want to eat it! That’s 5 days without constantly washing dishes!!! 5 days without breaking up fights and arguments! Not too shabby.
But, that’s also 5 days without, “mommy, I love you”. 5 days without infectious screams and giggles. 5 days without little hugs and kisses. 5 days without peaking at peacefully sleeping faces. 5 days without lively chatter. 5 days without snuggling close to warm little bodies. 5 days missing of my little ones.
Since there were fewer mouths here to munch on banana’s, I made this swirled banana cake. Since I love Whoppers, I thought a chocolate malt frosting would pair perfectly. I was right! Wonderful combination! The cake was so moist. Loaded with sweet banana flavor! As I said, it’s a swirled cake, so part of the batter was combined with cocoa. Mmm, mmm! The frosting is very rich, you can certainly leave out the malt powder. The chocolate frosting would be fantastic atop a leather shoe, it’s that good! I am going to give this banana cake to my sister to share with her office since there’s only two of us here this week. It suspect it goes very quickly there. This banana cake is a wonderful way to use up banana’s. A great alternative to banana bread. And the chocolate malt frosting makes it a complete package!
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Hahaha wow, some people I just don’t get. If I had five days without my family, I’d clean the hell out of my house the first day and spend the rest of the time enjoying no dog hair, no stray shoes or napkins or soda cans, and curl up with a book or my DVR. Let’s just say Barry White would be nowhere involved in this, lol. BTW, this cake looks AWESOME. Banana cake is one of my favorites and that malted frosting looks to-die for!
BAHAHAH!!!No Barry White and NO bear skin rugs on the floor!!! And I did spend the first day polishing my floors and cleaning. Now I can spend time on Pinterest without worrying about neglecting my kids!
Banana cake, well, banana anything is a favorite. Adding the chocolate malt frosting puts this cake over the top. If your kids find out this is the kind of thing you bake when they’re not around, they’ll be collecting Social Security and will still be living at home.
If the kids are living with us that long, I’m going to take a sledge hammer to my mixer!
This looks so good! My girls would love it. They spent five days at my parents and although I missed them, they had a great time and I caught up on so much! You will appreciate them so much when they return. Well for an hour or so..until you’re perfect house from just you and your husband is again destroyed by your children. ; ) Ha Ha
Ha! So true, it will take about an hour for me to wish my in laws would take them again!
yum yum yum. i think chocolate-banana should be the default flavor in desserts. it’s my FAVE!
would you link up this ooey-gooey delight at my new link party? i think my readers would LOVE this idea! http://www.happyhomeblog.com/weekend-warrior/weekend-warrior-2/
Thanks, I like the combo! Just linked up, thanks for the invite!
This one also looks great. I have a link party on Wednesdays, and I would love it if you would link this post. It is called Wednesdays Adorned From Above Link Party.
http://www.adornedfromabove.com/2012/08/pink-honey-beeswax-lip-balm-and.html
I hope to see you there. Have a great Day.
Debi Bolocofsky
Adorned From Above
http://www.adornedfromabove.com
I made this cake and brought it in to work for a colleague’s birthday. It went over very well and all I brought home was an empty dirty pan! I highly recommend it.
I’m so happy to hear this turned out well for you and that you had an empty pan!! I want to work at your office!
Thanks for the invite and for checking out my blog! Would love to link up!
Oh wow this cake looks so good…had to check out some other recipes whilst I was visiting and now am a subscriber so I don’t miss out on the future ones!
Thanks for sharing and I hope you enjoyed your kid free time (and the reunion!).
Nika
Thank you! Thanks for taking the time to visit! I’ll be checking out A Little Less perfect as well!
Yummy! This cake looks soooooooooo sinful and delicious
Thanks so much for sharing at Heavenly Treats Sunday! Every week you link up such awesome treats!
YUM! That looks delicious!! Thanks for sharing. XO
Bananas and chocolate are a win/win combo imo!
I would love to invited you over to my Link Party at The Purple Pumpkin Blog. Hope to see you there!
Thank you for the invite!! I’ll be there!
Thanks for hosting!
Oh my this looks wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing at this week’s BFF Open House.
Thanks for hosting the BFF Open House!
Right there with ya sister! I would clean my house, read a book and blog non stop!
Thanks for sharing at I Freakin did it Friday
I like a girl who thinks like me! Thanks for stopping over!
YUM! I love banana cake so this is definitely something I want to try! I’m a new follower and I’m pinning this! I’d love for you to visit my blog! Have a great day!
Thank you for stopping by! Can’t wait to check out your blog!
Believe me that’s the farthest thing from my mind when I have child free days!! Haha! This cake is absolutely amazing!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!
Oh my goodness! You are an excellent cook!! Thanks for bringing this to Foodtastic Friday too!
Awe, thanks!! Thanks for hosting!
Thanks for hosting the party!
This cake looks amazingly delicious! Thanks for sharing at Saturday Show and Tell. I hope you be back this week with more great stuff!
-Mackenzie
http://www.cheeriosandlattes.com
I’ll be back! Thanks for hosting every week!
Another great recipe. My husband loves malt, this is something he will love. Thank you so much for sharing with Wednesdays Adorned From Above Link Party last week. This weeks Link Party is opened at http://www.adornedfromabove.com/2012/08/tangerine-toner-and-wednesdays-adorned.html
Hope to see you there. It is open until Sunday night.
Debi @ Adorned From Above
I loved malted anything too! This was a good fix!