A
Birthday Cake for Donna
One
of my neighbors and dear friend, Donna had a birthday today. Slave
wanted to make something special for her. She has had a rough time
and just spent several days in the hospital with pneumonia. Forced to
carry oxygen with her she also has heart problems. However this never
gets this lady down. Donna has a wonderful sense of humor and
knowledge. Just love hearing her tell about how, in her fifties, with
children grown up and finding herself divorced, she back-packed
across Europe! Conversations always end up with laughter that makes
your sides hurt!
This
blog is honest! While this cake did not turn out pretty, it was good!
Told Donna that due to her delicate condition, I didn't make a two
layer cake – all I was giving her was a 6 inch-er! She looked at
me with a dry expression and said: “I love you but I'm gonna have
to kill you! You dirty dog!”
Since
her oxygen is on full-flow it was decided not to serve this “flambe”!
Ingredients:
1
banana sliced
1
small box cake mix (tried the Duncon Hines “Perfect Sized”)
2
Tbs softened butter
2
eggs
Sauce:
- 4 Tbs butter
- 2/3 cup dark brown sugar
- 50ml bottle Capt. Morgan Spiced Rum
Directions:
Preheat
oven to 300 degrees. Set an
empty baking sheet on the bottom of the oven, or on a rack directly
underneath where you will bake cake, to catch any foster sauce that
may drip during baking. This package includes a 6 inch
cardboard pan.
slave
learned the hard way to place this paper pan inside of a regular
metal pan. It was quite messy!
Slice the banana on an
angle. Arrange in bottom of the un-greased pan.
In a small sauce pan
melt the butter and brown sugar stirring well. Carefully add the rum,
it will have a tendency to foam up. Stir this until it is nice and
thick! Pour over the banana slices in the pan.
Mix the cake according
to the package directions adding an extra egg for richness. Pour this
over the banana mixture and smooth with spatula.
Bake a good 40 minutes,
test with a tooth pick all the way down to the bottom of the pan,
then maybe add another 5 minutes.
Remove the pans to a
cooling rack for about 20 minutes. Carefully invert onto a plate.
Note: slave made a mess
of this! The paper pan had a false bottom that popped up when taking
it out of the oven. That proceeded to leak the sauce all over the
counter. Then when inverting, found the cake was not completely
cooked on bottom and had to finish it in the microwave for an
additional 2 minutes. While this is not as pretty as slave would have
liked, it DID taste wonderful and Donna was so kind!
Here is a copy of the
card slave wrote for her:
Donna:
Think
of what it has brought you!
The
laughter, the love,
the
hugs,
the
beautiful music,
the
fantastic colors.
See
yourself on a bright
Christmas
morning
Surrounded
by torn wrapping paper & opened boxes.
At
that moment when you realize there are still much more
presents
left to open!
More
joy, more smiles, more love.
PS:
its your birthday – let someone else clean up the mess!
======================
For
our music:
socialslave
To
satisfy and restore.
To
nourish, support and maintain.
To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I
cook!
Please
buy slave's cookbook:
The
Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes
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