Easy Banana Cake
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 6
ingredients
- 157.80 ml sugar
- 118.29 ml sour cream
- 1 egg
- 14.79 ml unsalted butter, softened
- 236.59 ml mashed ripe banana
- 4.92 ml pure vanilla extract
- 236.59 ml flour
- 1.23 ml salt
- 2.46 ml baking soda
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Frosting
- 29.58 ml unsalted butter, softened
- 59.14 ml heavy cream
- 2.46 ml vanilla bean paste or 2.46 ml vanilla extract
- 295.73 ml confectioners' sugar
directions
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To make cake:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. (bake at 350 degrees if using a glass pan).
- Cream together sugar, sour cream, egg, and 2 T. softened butter. Add mashed bananas and 1 teaspoons vanilla extract. Add flour, salt & baking soda; mix well. Pour into greased 8 X 8 pan and bake for 20-25 minutes.
- Cool completely before frosting.
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To make frosting:
- Cream butter and confections sugar together until smooth. Slowly add the heavy cream; stir until smooth. Stir in the vanilla bean past or extract until fully incorporated. Spread on cooled cake.
- Recipe doubles well to fit in a 9 X 13 pan.
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Here is the general rule for substituting vanilla:
- 1 vanilla bean = 1 T. vanilla powder = 1 T. vanilla bean paste = 1 T.pure vanilla extract.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
CIndytc
United States