The Ever-Changing Granny Cake
It's Time For Cake!
Dump Cake
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Just Dump It In!
This cake recipe has been called everything from backyard fence cake (supposedly how the recipe was created) to granny cake, to my grandmother's name for it "Dump Cake."
The batter and manner of baking holds up to about any kind of sweet canned fruit complete with syrup that you want to put in it. With all the kids over the years, I've never seen anyone turn their nose up and refuse it. In fact, it was often requested at birthdays instead of the usual bakery cake I offered. Sigh. They would make me work. Why couldn't they just choose a simple sugary sheet cake?!
I baked this so many times, that I memorized the recipe, but the last few years, with the kids gone, baking it just seemed "too, too." Somethings just belong on the big dinner table.
As a sucker for gentle, this cake gets me. I've been all emotionally ooey gooey lately, so I'm diggin' this recipe back out and baking it this weekend, or "I'll-be-darned!"
I'm warnin' ya tho' - it packs a whoppin' number of calories, but you don't have to count 'em if you don't want to. If you're diabetic, use Splenda, and dietetic canned fruit and you have my deepest sympathy, but at least you'll be around to receive it and I won't get hate mail from your family.
Don't bother frosting it, but some people do shake powdered sugar over it, and you can use whipping cream if you think you need that extra moment of fluff on the tongue.
Marisue's Grandmother's Dump Cake
Beginning Ingredients:
- Room temp 3/4 c butter
- Room temp 3 eggs
Dry Ingredients:
- 3 c all purpose flour (NOT SELF RISING)
- 2 c sugar (or Splenda)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 to 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp salt (it requires it, that's a lot of flour)
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves (just do it)
Wet Ingredients:
- 2 c mashed ripe banana (ready to eat, NOT GREEN)
- 1 8 oz can crushed pineapple (DO NOT DRAIN)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract (USE REAL VANILLA, NOT IMMITATION)
- Optional: 1 c chopped pecans, walnuts, or your favorite, if using almonds, make them slivered. dust them with a tiny bit of flour until they're coated. This will keep them from sinking to the bottom of your cake.
You're Gonna Love This Procedure:
- Grease and flour a tube pan, or bundt pan.
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Stir together dry ingredients, set aside.
- With mixer, beat butter just until softened, less than a minute.
- Add eggs, bananas and other wet ingredients. Beat until combined. Stop.
- Add flour/dry ingredient mixture to the banana mixture, beat on low just until combined plus 1 minute. DO NOT OVERBEAT THE CAKE BATTER, it makes it tough.
- Stir in nuts carefully.
- Spoon the batter into the pan, and bake for about 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
- Remove it from the oven, let it set about 10 or 12 minutes, then invert the cake on a wire rack and continue to let it cool. Leaving it in the pan will cause it to "sweat" and could crumble a bit.
- Dust it with powdered sugar if you must and add cool whip to each serving.
It is to DIE for!
Variations: Instead of the crushed pineapple, I've used canned peaches in heavy syrup, but only about 1/4 of the syrup, adding more as needed to make the batter the same consistency as with the crushed pineapple. Chop the peaches small and make sure they're tender, meaning purchase cling free, and a good brand. Experiment with other fruit, keeping the same consistency and liquid levels.
Enjoy, and don't blame the calories on me! More recipes.
Comments
Hi Hawkesdream, it's "dreamy" and very very easy. Measure carefully, other than that, it's just dump 'n go!! =)) sweeet dreamsss hawkesdream!!!
What a yummy cake! I have made a similar type of cakes with apple sauce my mom made from the apples she grows, and it turns out yummy.
I am so glad you do not live near me, I'd be sneaking into Kitchen for the food.
Hi sweetiePie, this is very good and I think apples would be delicious...hmmm applesauce and peaches!! or blueberries n syrup, and apples....it just gets better and better always evolving..
Hi The Sandman!! A lot of people sneak into the kitchen when that cake comes out of the oven, and I don't think I even know some of them.....
That sounds like a really sweet cake, and the pecans make it tastes really good.
it is a sweet cake and dense, but tender. The acid in the pineapple helps, I think a combination of applesauce and pineapple would be good. You can cut back on the sugar by purchasing lite canned fruit, but it does affect the flavor, cuts it a bit...
I have never had this and I don't cook or bake -- but this looks GOOD, it sounds very sweet and tasty. I could go for this sometime. I might try to get Karl or Kitten to bake one.
Maybe one day you can write a recipe book Marisue :).
Hi SwPie, that's an idea, but there is a world of them out there, maybe I could approach it from cooking for kids, etc. Put stories with the recipes. hmmmm !!!! =))
Hi Robert...anyone who bakes a cake is a friend of mine!! =)) I hope they enjoy it!! It IS rather sweet, but that's why it's a frequent request and has no need for frosting. enjoy!! =))
Marisue, tried this for an office pot luck lunch and it was a hit. Thanks very much, into the old recipe file for this delicious cake!
Hi Mardi, yeaaaaaaaaaaa!! I'm so glad, I'd have felt terrible if they didn't like it, but haven't found anyone who didn't like yet!! and wasnit it easy to do!! I'm a sucker for easy. =))
I wish I could bake and try this out. But I do not take to the science behind it - the measurement, the temperature. But I could cook up a meal - I do it by instinct. Thanks for sharing though, my sisters would love this :D
Hi Cris A, this is simple for those who don't bake, just follow the recipe carefully, let me know if you need more info, OR, just let your sisters do it and make sure they invite you over to watch!! Then, you'll be an expert. If not, you can always be the expert taster.
Sounds amazing. I'll have to print this out and anglicize the ingredients list so that me and my girl can try it out next time we're in mother/daughter baking mode!
Great, I think the ease of prepariing this is it's main attraction. It's moist and sweet and full of flavor. I add the banana no matter the other fruit, it's the main moist contributor.
Oooh I love this recipe and I love what you said about the cloves "Just do it."
=)) cloves are sometimes left out due to their strong aroma and flavor, but this cake eats it up!! =))
Oh, THANK YOU for this. My grandmother used to make version of this that involved fruit cocktail and sweet glaze on top, and I lost the recipe years ago. I can hardly wait to try it again.
BTW, happy Hub Pages birthday--I heard you had one recently. HP is better with you here marisue! (Especially your recipes!)
Hi Pam and wow, thank you for the kind words!! =)) I hope this cake is close and maybe you can play around with it and get it like your grandmother's. It's been around and I bet there are few people who change the clove to cinnamon, I've had it that way too!! enjoy!!=))
I think that would be a great book Marisue, especially since yours will have unique and interesting stories.
Hm, it's a good idea, choosing stories and experiences that had to do with food issues, some kids had a lot of emotions mixed in with eating, I could talk about getting kids in the kitchen....=)))) I'll put some thought to that. thank you!!!
Great recipe similar to an apple cake my gran used to bake. But alas too rich and sweet for me now.
I can smell that cake baking in the oven with the special smell from the cake and the cloves!
Oh, THANK YOU for this.
I hope you enjoy it, thank you!! for the visit!!! =)
Marisue, thanks for sharing the cake recipe. I wonder if it would take a light glaze or if that would be overdoing it. I'm a sucker for icing.
This cake is great with a light powdered sugar thin glaze...go for it!! see my hub "What's On Top Of The Cake?" here: http://hubpages.com/hub/Whats-On-Top-Of-The-Cake
I've also seen people combine crushed pineapple with maraschino cherries. YUMMMM!
Oooo girly_gril09, that sounds sooo good, a great addition!! That's why this is the ever changing granny cake!! YUM I'll try that! =))
Hawkesdream 3 years ago
Sounds absolutely delicious, think I might bake this weekend too yum yum.