Banana Cake With Bourbon Cream Cheese Frosting |
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Prep Time: 20 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes |
Ready In: 50 Minutes Servings: 16 |
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Moist and dense and no nuts! This is always my husband's birthday cake. (And great for breakfast too! But you didn't hear me say that.) Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups flour |
1 tablespoon baking soda |
1/8 teaspoon salt |
1/2 cup unsalted butter |
1 cup white sugar |
3/4 cup light brown sugar |
2 eggs |
4 ripe bananas, mashed |
2/3 cup buttermilk |
1/2 cup butter, softened |
1 (8 ounce) box cream cheese, softened |
4 cups powdered sugar |
50 ml bourbon (an airline bottle) |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Grease and flour two 8 round pans.
3. In a small bowl whisk together flour, soda, and salt.
4. In a large bowl, cream butter, white sugar and brown sugar until fluffy.
5. Beat in eggs one at a time.
6. Mix in bananas*.
7. Add flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk to the creamed mixture.
8. Pour into cake pans.
9. Bake for 30 minutes.
10. While the cake is baking, make frosting: beat butter and cream cheese until smooth, then add powdered sugar and Bourbon- if the amount of booze scares you, add less, or use bourbon flavoring.
11. *Wefreeze overripe bananas- when it's time to use them, we place them in a cup of hot water for just a few minutes, and they slide right out of their peel.
12. Once the cakes cool, frost them- the cake (stacked) is pretty heavy and dense, so don't expect a tall fluffy cake.
13. Stays moist for days if covered properly.
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