Recipe: Appetizing Banana Nut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Banana Nut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting. Browse For Yummy & Hassle-Free Cake & Cupcake Recipes From Kraft®. While the cake cools, make the frosting: In a bowl, blend together the cream cheese and butter. Gradually add the confectioners' sugar and beat until light and fluffy.

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!). Banana walnut cake is the perfect way to use up any overripe bananas you have laying on the counter. No fancy mixers and no layers. You can have Banana Nut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting using 19 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Banana Nut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

1. You need of Cake:.
2. Prepare 3 cups of AP flour.
3. Prepare 1/4 tsp of salt.
4. It's 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
6. It's 10 tbs of butter at room temperature.
7. Prepare 1/2 cup of sugar.
8. Prepare 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
9. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.
10. It's 3 of eggs.
11. It's 5 of medium to large bananas mashed.
12. It's 1 cup of sour cream.
13. It's 1/2 cup of milk (I used nonfat).
14. Prepare 1 cup of crushed pecans or walnuts (I used pecans).
15. It's of Frosting:.
16. Prepare 8 oz of cream cheese at room temperature.
17. It's 1/2 cup of butter.
18. It's 2 tsp of vanilla.
19. It's 2 cups of powder sugar.

In a large bowl, or the bowl of your stand mixer, whip on medium speed shortening, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and buttermilk until smooth. Add bananas and stir on low only until mixed in. 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.

Banana Nut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees..
2. Combine flour, salt, baking soda and cinnamon in a medium mixing bowl..
3. In a separate large mixing bowl, beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy..
4. Beat in vanilla and eggs to butter mixture..
5. Stir in the mashed bananas in the butter mixture..
6. Mix in the sour cream, milk and 1/2 of the flour mixture to butter mixture..
7. When finished, mix in rest of the flour mixture to butter mixture..
8. Fold in crushed pecans (or walnuts) to batter..
9. 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..
10. For the frosting, cream together the cream cheese, butter and vanilla..
11. Add the powder sugar and if using an electric mixture, blend at medium speed until creamy and smooth texture..
12. Add the powder sugar and if using an electric mixer, set to medium and blend away until texture is smooth and creamy..
13. Enjoy :).

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