Banana Cake With Bourbon Cream Cheese Frosting

Daymented's Note:

Moist and dense and no nuts! This is always my husband's birthday cake. (And great for breakfast too! But you didn't hear me say that.)

• Total Time: 50 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 4 ripe bananas, mashed
• 2/3 cup buttermilk

FROSTING

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 (8 ounce) box cream cheese, softened
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 50 ml Bourbon (an airline bottle)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Grease and flour two 8" round pans.
3. In a small bowl whisk together flour, soda, and salt.
4. In a large bowl, cream butter, white sugar and brown sugar until fluffy.
5. Beat in eggs one at a time.
6. Mix in bananas*.
7. Add flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk to the creamed mixture.
8. Pour into cake pans.
9. Bake for 30 minutes.
10. While the cake is baking, make frosting: beat butter and cream cheese until smooth, then add powdered sugar and Bourbon- if the amount of booze scares you, add less, or use bourbon flavoring.
11. *Wefreeze overripe bananas- when it's time to use them, we place them in a cup of hot water for just a few minutes, and they slide right out of their peel.
12. Once the cakes cool, frost them- the cake (stacked) is pretty heavy and dense, so don't expect a tall fluffy cake.
13. Stays moist for days if covered properly.

Reviews

[under12parsecs]

This is a lovely, dense and moist cake that is bursting with banana flavor! I think it was even better on the second day. I halved the recipe and made a single layer cake. The frosting is lighter than most cream cheese frostings, but very rich and flavorful with the bourbon.

[KennKonn]

I am only going to rate the cake because I didnt make the frosting I have a friend who is pregnant and can't have the booze. I used a whiskey sauce from another recipe.Bread Pudding Souffle With Whiskey Sauce which was really good over the cake and ice cream. The cake is a dense, delicious banana cake. It takes minutes to prepare and 30 minutes to bake. My husband is a banana loaf fan and loved the cake. Next time I will make the frosting with the bourbon. Thanks for a keeper.