Beaten egg whites suffuse banana cake with lightness

By Betty Shimabukuro

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 16, 2013

~~<p>If you're planning to make today's cake, a banana chiffon, get organized. This is not the kind of easy recipe that you can pull off on the fly, measuring as you go.</p>
<p>Sift that flour, separate those eggs (eight of them), mash those bananas. Then turn on the oven. And then beat those egg whites to stiffness. If your idea of baking and bananas is a dense quick bread, you'll find this light and fluffy cake to be more of a challenge. But it's worth the effort.</p>
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If you're planning to make today's cake, a banana chiffon, get organized. This is not the kind of easy recipe that you can pull off on the fly, measuring as you go.

Sift that flour, separate those eggs (eight of them), mash those bananas. Then turn on the oven. And then beat those egg whites to stiffness. If your idea of baking and bananas is a dense quick bread, you'll find this light and fluffy cake to be more of a challenge. But it's worth the effort. Login for more...