Ponderosa Cake

We made Ponderosa Cake at the Gilmore Park Church Community Kitchen for the community meal. Ponderosa Cake is a popular cake in University of British Columbia. Karen was involved with the catering at UBC long time ago and she made a lot of these Ponderosa Cake. You can still find this cake in the UBC cafeterias until today.

Karen had modified the Ponderosa Cake recipe to reduce the amount of fat and sugar for a healthier snack. She was able to maintain the sweetness by roasting the banana first.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 cups banana (5 to 6 banana)
• 3 cups unbleached flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 cup low fat yogurt or sour cream

For topping

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Click on the link below for the instructions.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350F. Line pan with parchment paper.

To bring out the sweetness of the banana, roast the banana while you preheat the oven. Roast for about 15 minutes. Remove from oven to cool. This way, you do not have to have ripen banana on hand to make a banana cake.

Mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and one-fourth of the sugar (i.e. 1/2 cup). Set aside.

Cream the butter and the remaining sugar (1 1/2 cups) until fluffy.

Add eggs, one at a time, beat to mix well before adding the next egg.

Mash the cooled banana.

Stir in vanilla and bananas. Mix thoroughly.

Stir in yogurt or sour cream.

Stir the mixture into the flour mixture, mixing well.

In a separate bowl, combine the cinnamon and brown sugar.We accidentally mix in the chocolate chips too. It will be easier to mix the sugar with cinnamon alone.

Pour half of the batter into the parchment line baking pan. Top with half of the cinnamon sugar, and half the chocolate chips.

Dollop the remaining batter on top of the chocolate chips.

Use an offset spatula to smooth out the batter. Top with the remaining cinnamon sugar and chocolate chips.

Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted to center comes out clean. Cool and slice. I’m sure Arkensen and Nanzaro will love this cake with all the chocolate chips.

Categorized Under: 2008 • Cakes

Tagged Under: Cake • Community Kitchen • Recipe