Old fashioned banana streusel cake

16 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 cup Fleischmann's Ff Margarine Spread, Divided, *Note
2 cups Sugar, Divided, **Note
2¼ cup Cake Flour, Divided
½ cup Grape-Nuts®
4 tablespoons Light Brown Sugar, Divided, ***Note
½ cup Egg Beaters® 99% Egg Substitute
2 teaspoons Vanilla
⅓ cup Lowfat Buttermilk
3 larges Bananas, 1 1/2 C Pureed
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
½ teaspoon Lite Salt, Divided, Optional

Directions

*NOTE: Original recipe uses Promise Ultra Fat-Free margarine **NOTE: Original recipe also states OR you can use 1 C sugar + 12 packets Sweet 'N Low

***NOTE: Original recipe also states OR 2 T brown sugar + ½ tsp Sweet 'N Low

Preheat oven to 350 deg F. Spray a square 9" pan with nonfat cooking spray.

For streusel, blend ¼ C fatfree margarine, 2 T brown sugar, ¾ C sugar, ½ C Grape-Nuts Cereal, ½ C flour, and ¼ tsp lite salt until it is just moistened. Set aside.

For cake use mixer to cream 1¼ C sugar, plus 2 T brown sugar, vanilla and ¾ C fatfree margarine until smooth. Add Egg Beaters and mix well (about 3 minutes). Add buttermilk and bananas. Mix well to combine. Sift 1 ¾ C flour, baking powder, baking soda, and ¼ tsp lite salt. Add gradually to batter, mixing until smooth. Transfer batter to prepared pan.

Smooth surface with spatula. Sprinkle reserved streusel evenly over the surface. Bake until medium brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 35 - 45 minutes. Let cool 30 minutes before serving.

Yield: Serves 16

This is incredible!! The streusel topping is quite sticky so I couldn't sprinkle it over the top... I just dropped it in small blobs on top.

According to book: All sugar version: Cal 210; Fat 0.5g; Carb 49g; Fib 1g; Pro 3g; Sod 205mg; CFF 2%

Using ½ Sweet 'N Low: Cal 159; Carb 35g Entered into MasterCook and tested for you by Reggie & Jeff Dwork <reggie@...>

Recipe by: Butter Busters Cookbook, Pam Mycoskie Posted to Digest eat-lf.v097.n031 by Reggie Dwork <reggie@...> on Jan 31, 1997.

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