Banana Cake With Pudding Icing

Easy, one-bowl cake with a divine icing. This is the ULTIMATE banana cake, great way to use ripe bananas, too. The icing makes a lot, but if you're like me, I'm lucky if half of it makes it onto the cake and not in my mouth/lol. Also, great to turn the cake onto a platter, so you can cover the sides with icing, too. If you like bananas, I GUARANTEEE you will LOVE this cake!!

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Yields: 1 nine x thirteen cake

Ingredients

• CAKE

• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 2  eggs
• 1  cup  mashed, ripe banana
• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 cup shortening
• 1  cup  sour milk or 1  cup buttermilk
• 2  teaspoons baking soda

• ICING

• 1 (3 1/2ounce) package instant vanilla pudding or 1 (3 1/2ounce) package banana cream instant pudding
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  cup milk
• 1  cup shortening
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Grease and flour the bottom of a 9x13 cake pan.
2. Blend together all cake ingredients and pour into prepared pan.
3. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 min.
4. ,until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
5. Let cool.
6. Meanwhile, prepare icing.
7. Place all icing ingredients into medium-sized bowl.
8. Mix with electric mixer on high speed until icing becomes fluffy and thick enough to spread (this takes a while, about 3-4 min.) Spread on top of cooled cake.
9. Refrigerate entire cake for a few hours before serving for best taste, and serve cold.