Banana Fingers

1/2 c. shortening or margarine           2-3/4 c. sifted cake flour
1 c. sugar                                         2 tsp. baking powder
2 eggs                                             1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. vanilla                                     3/4 tsp. salt
1/3 c. milk                                        1 c. mashed banana (2 large)
                                                       1/2 c. finely chopped walnuts

Cream shortening, sugar and eggs. Add vanilla. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with banana and milk. Stir in nuts.

Grease well corn stick pans. This recipe makes 28 banana fingers in four corn stick pans with seven each. Bake at 350 deg. for 15-20 minutes, until golden brown around edges. Frost with banana frosting when cool. (Turn out of pans immediately and cool on racks.)

BANANA FROSTING

1 large banana, mashed                         1/4 C. margarine
2-1/2 c. powdered sugar (1 lb.) sifted

Beat ingredients together until fluffy. Frost rounded side of banana fingers. To simulate lines in bananas, pipe with writing tip chocolate frosting in 3-4 lines from one end to the other. Or you may apply chocolate syrup with toothpick if you wish.

NOTE: You may wat to add a few drops of yellow cake coloring to make the frosting a light yellow color.