Banana Nut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting. Cake: In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Stir in the pecans, or reserve them to sprinkle over the frosted cake. Fill and frost the cake when it is completely cool. The cake itself is tall and delicate, but sturdy enough to hold the very simplified cream cheese frosting (it's literally cream cheese and confectioner's sugar!). You can cook Banana Nut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting using 19 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Banana Nut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
- You need of Cake:.
- It’s 3 cups of AP flour.
- You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
- You need 10 tbs of butter at room temperature.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of sugar.
- You need 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
- It’s 1 tsp of vanilla.
- Prepare 3 of eggs.
- It’s 5 of medium to large bananas mashed.
- It’s 1 cup of sour cream.
- It’s 1/2 cup of milk (I used nonfat).
- It’s 1 cup of crushed pecans or walnuts (I used pecans).
- Prepare of Frosting:.
- It’s 8 oz of cream cheese at room temperature.
- It’s 1/2 cup of butter.
- You need 2 tsp of vanilla.
- You need 2 cups of powder sugar.
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Banana Nut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting step by step
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees..
- Combine flour, salt, baking soda and cinnamon in a medium mixing bowl..
- In a separate large mixing bowl, beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy..
- Beat in vanilla and eggs to butter mixture..
- Stir in the mashed bananas in the butter mixture..
- Mix in the sour cream, milk and 1/2 of the flour mixture to butter mixture..
- When finished, mix in rest of the flour mixture to butter mixture..
- Fold in crushed pecans (or walnuts) to batter..
- Pour batter in a 9 by 13 inch lightly sprayed baking dish and bake 35 minutes or until done. Depending upon your elevation, it took me 35 minutes exactly..
- For the frosting, cream together the cream cheese, butter and vanilla..
- Add the powder sugar and if using an electric mixture, blend at medium speed until creamy and smooth texture..
- Add the powder sugar and if using an electric mixer, set to medium and blend away until texture is smooth and creamy..
- Enjoy :).
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for one hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. This will make the cake very moist. For the frosting, cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the bananas, granulated sugar, and brown. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
