Photo: Banana Nut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
Ingredients
Cake:
- Butter, for greasing pans
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pans
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 4 large ripe bananas, mashed
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Frosting:
- 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), at room temperature
- 1 pound confectioners' sugar, sifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- Cook's Note: This recipe is not formulated for a wedding cake, but for a normal size everyone can use. Increase as needed if you are making tiered or extra large cakes.
Directions
Cake:
In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Add the eggs and oil and stir just until the dry ingredients are moistened; do not beat. Stir in the banana, pecans, and vanilla. Divide the batter among the prepared pans and bake for 23 to 28 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool the cake layers in the pans for 10 minutes, and then turn them out onto a rack to cool completely. While the cake cools, make the frosting.
Frosting:
In a bowl, blend together the cream cheese and butter. Gradually add the confectioners' sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla. Stir in the pecans, or reserve them to sprinkle over the frosted cake. Fill and frost the cake when it is completely cool.
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By k-czucha
on June 05, 2013
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Really delicious, but one cup of sugar is more then enough. I had to add a little bit of buttermilk to the dough because it turned out to be too thick.
By jakoval1_3656562
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on March 23, 2013
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Very good as cake or muffins, with or without icing. Add 8 oz. crushed pineapple to make it REALLY good and moist.
By Melyps007
on March 09, 2013
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It turned out great! But I rated it four stars because it was very dry and sloppy when I tried to mix the eggs and oil into the dry ingredients. It was just horrible (and I made sure everything was well measured. So I just added a small amount of buttermilk into the batter before adding the rest of the ingredients (the mashed bananas, vanilla and almonds. It expanded a lot in the oven and it's just wonderfully tasty!!!
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