Banana Cake Recipe With Amazing Frosting Recipe 445

Steps:

• BANANA CAKE: Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Grease two 8- or 9- inch layer cake pans (or line the pans with parchment paper or wax paper). Whip together the butter and sugar. Add the buttermilk. Add the bananas and eggs - whip just enough to mix together. Add the flour, baking powder, soda, and salt. Mix together just well enough to incorporate the ingredients - do not over mix. Pour into the prepared pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 - 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out almost clean. Cool completely before frosting. FLUFFY FROSTING: Put the milk and flour in a small saucepan and cook over medium-low heat until thick, stirring constantly. (Stirring is important, and is key to making sure all lumps are out and the mixture is smooth.) Cool this mixture to room temperature. In a large mixing bowl, put the butter, butter-flavored Crisco, sugar and vanilla. Whip together well, until light and fluffy. Add the cooled flour mixture to the butter/sugar mixture and whip together well.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 2 - 8 inch round pans. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream butter, white sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Mix in the bananas. Add flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk to the creamed mixture. Stir in chopped walnuts. Pour batter into the prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. Remove from oven, and place on a damp tea towel to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275°F (135C).
• Grease and flour a 9 x 13 pan.
• In a small bowl, mix mashed banana with the lemon juice; set aside.
• In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream 3/4 cup butter and 2 1/8 cups sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, then stir in 2 tsp vanilla.
• Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk.
• Stir in banana mixture.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for one hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and place directly into the freezer for 45 minutes. This will make the cake very moist.
• For the frosting, cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth.
• Beat in 1 teaspoon vanilla.
• Add icing sugar and beat on low speed until combined, then on high speed until frosting is smooth.
• Spread on cooled cake.
• Sprinkle chopped walnuts over top of the frosting, if desired.

Steps:

• For cake, preheat oven to 350°F.
• Measure flour, soda, salt, baking powder and sugar into mixing bowl.
• Add softened butter and mix at medium speed of electric mixer until the mixture is a "mealy" consistency.
• Add buttermilk and mashed banana gradually and mix for four minutes; your mixture should be light and fluffy.
• Scrape the mixture from the sides of the bowl and add eggs in two additions, beating after each addition of egg.
• Pour into two greased and floured 9 inch cake pans and bake at 350° for about 25 minutes (cake should be golden brown).
• Remove layers from pan and cool completely, then chill layers before you frost the cake (the icing is thin and it WILL RUN if cake is not cold!).
• For frosting, cream butter and sugar together and slowly add the cream.
• Add the mashed banana gradually, continuing to beat as you add it.
• Add corn syrup and mix enough to blend well (corn syrup will help the thin frosting to "set").
• Frost cake and store in refrigerator.