Banana Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

from "verses from my kitchen" - http://versesfrommykitchen.blogspot.com/2010/12/banana-cake-with-cream-cheese-icing.html

• Ready In: 1 hr 15 mins
• Serves: 12
• Yields: 1 9-inch cake

Ingredients

• Cake

• 4  ripe bananas, mashed
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 cup light brown sugar
• 1⁄2 cup buttermilk
• 3  eggs, room temperature
• 1⁄2 cup sour cream
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 2  cups all-purpose flour
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1  teaspoon salt

• Icing

• 6  ounces cream cheese, room temperature
• 6  tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 2  cups  sifted confectioner's sugar
• 1  orange, zest of

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour an 9" x 2" cake pan.
2. In a small bowl , whisk together flour, baking soda and salt and set aside until later.
3. In a large bowl, mix sugar, brown sugar and mashed bananas with electric mixer on lowest speed until fully combined. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add the buttermilk, sour cream and vanilla. Mix until smooth.
4. Add the flour mixture while mixer on low speed. Mix until combined.
5. Pour the batter into the pan and bake for 45 minutes or until a wooden skewer or toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean of batter. Remove from the oven and place on a damn towel to cool for 15 minutes.
6. Make icing: In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla and then stir in the icing sugar, gradually, until smooth.
7. When cake is partially cooled, spread icing over until covered.