Banana Cake
Saturday, October 24, 2009 Posted In Recipe Edit This 0 Comments »
On Scottie's birthday we had a few friends and some family over at my parent's house for some cake and ice cream. I made a yummy banana cake that seemed to go over well. It tastes just like banana bread but with a great cream cheese frosting on it. Every little thing about this cake is fattening... Enjoy!
Ingredients:
1 ½ cups ripe bananas (mashed)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 cups flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup butter (softened)
2 1/8 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 ½ cups buttermilk
Cream cheese frosting
½ cup butter (softened)
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese (softened)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 ½ cups icing sugar
Walnuts (chopped, for garnish)
Step 1: Pre-heat the oven to 275 degrees. Grease 2, 8” round baking pans.
Step 2: In a small bowl mix mashed bananas and lemon juice. Set aside. In a medium bowl mix flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside. In a large bowl cream ¾ cups butter and 2 1/8 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in vanilla extract. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Stir in banana mixture.
Step 2: In a small bowl mix mashed bananas and lemon juice. Set aside. In a medium bowl mix flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside. In a large bowl cream ¾ cups butter and 2 1/8 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in vanilla extract. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Stir in banana mixture.
Step 3: Evenly pour batter into 2, 8” round baking pans. Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Between those times keep checking on the cake with a toothpick to see if it’s done. When the cake is done take the baking pans and place them directly into the freezer for 45 minutes to cool.
Step 4: While cake is cooling, to make the frosting- In a bowl cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth. Beat in vanilla extract. Add icing sugar a little at a time and beat on low until combined. Then beat on high until smooth.
Step 5: Remove the cake from the pans and lay out the bottom half on a plate. Spread it fully with frosting. Add the top half and cover the entire cake with frosting. Add chopped walnuts on top.(Makes 14 Servings)
This area on both sides of the fence used to have huge clumps of old leaves and mulch. It looks so much better now that it is all cleaned, I am so excited!
The awning area, again completely cleaned up. Prior to this you could not see the ground at all.
The garage door view. We kept the original garage door color. We are going to wait to see how the main color paint comes on and hope to find a nice compliment color for it.
The next pictures give you an idea of what the garage color USED to be. This is the door to the small patio that is attached to the garage.
This is a window frame right before it was primed.
More of the old color.
Close up of the old color. As you can see in this picture, there was practically NO chipping anywhere. Big bummer. But, the color is pretty retro so I suppose we eventually would have changed the color. Probably not the first project we would have chosen, though.
