Banana Cake Recipe

An incredibly moist banana cake recipe with cream cheese frosting, this is the cake to serve at the end of memorable meals. A luscious banana puree keeps it moist, and the sinfully delicious cream cheese frosting envelops the golden hued cake.

The aroma of vanilla and bananas will permeate your kitchen, tempting you to eat dessert first. Don't give in! This is one cake that's worth getting through a meal for.

Banana Cake

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
2 eggs, beaten
Pinch of salt
1/2 cups butter
1/2 cups milk
2 tsp. baking powder
3 pureed bananas, very ripe
1 tsp. baking soda (add to pureed bananas)
1/4 tsp. vanilla

Cream Cheese Frosting:

1/2 stick butter, softened
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 box powdered sugar (1 lb.)
2 tsp. vanilla extract

Directions:

1. Cream butter, sugar and eggs.  Sift flour several times, then add the salt and baking powder to the flour.

2. To the creamed butter mixture, add the milk and flour (alternating, beginning and ending with flour).

3. Add vanilla and mashed bananas (with the baking soda added to the bananas) to this mixture.

4. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Frosting Directions:

1. Mix cream cheese and butter until smooth, add sugar and vanilla and blend well. Spread on cooled cake.