Banana Cake w/Buttercream Frosting.
You can cook Banana Cake w/Buttercream Frosting using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Banana Cake w/Buttercream Frosting
- You need 3 cup of cake flour.
- It’s 1 tbsp of baking powder.
- You need 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
- It’s 3/4 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of shortening.
- It’s 2 1/4 cup of granulated sugar.
- It’s 3 of eggs, well beaten.
- You need 1 1/2 cup of mashed, ripe bananas (about 4).
- It’s 118 cup of buttermilk.
- You need 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- It’s 3/4 cup of hot milk.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of butter.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of shortening.
- It’s 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- It’s 1 tbsp of cornstarch.
- Prepare 1 cup of granulated sugar.
Banana Cake w/Buttercream Frosting step by step
- Preheat oven to 375°F..
- Sift flour, baking powder, soda, and salt together, set aside..
- Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs and bananas. Mix in buttermilk and vanilla..
- Add flour mixture alternately with wet ingredients beginning and ending with flour..
- Grease and flour 2 9 inch layer pans and pour in batter. Bake 25 to 30 minutes..
- For Frosting.
- Heat milk until very hot but not boiling..
- Cream butter and shortening. Gradually add cornstarch and sugar..
- Beat well after each addition, then add vanilla..
- Add hot milk to sugar mixture a little at a time, beating though my after each addition until all sugar dissolves and thick enough to spread.
- Make sure to add milk a little at a time to make sure frosting doesn't curdle!!!.