Banana Cake with Tahini Fudge

Rotting bananas had a constant presence in our kitchen island’s fruit bowl. My mother, who is adamant against food waste of any kind, would absolutely never throw them away. Instead, she’d pull out her Betty Crocker binder, remove the banana bread recipe, and hand it over to one of my sisters, usually Fatema, who’d always add chocolate chips in addition to the recipe’s recommendation for chopped walnuts. There’s still no banana bread recipe I prefer more than that one, and believe me I’ve t