Banana White Chocolate Cake With Icing - Absolutely Decadent
Ready In: 45 mins
Serves: 12-14
Ingredients
cake
- 1⁄2 cup butter (room temperature)
- 2⁄3 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 1⁄2 cups pastry flour
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 cups mashed bananas
- 1 cup white chocolate (chopped)
- 1⁄4 cup white chocolate (for garnish,may use more if you wish)
cream cheese frosting
- 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese (room temperature)
- 6 tablespoons butter (room temperature)
- 1 cup icing sugar (sifted)
- 4 tablespoons sour cream
Directions
- Cake: Preheat oven to 350, grease and flour 2 9 inch cake pans.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, beat in eggs and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt, add to creamed mixture alternately with the mashed bananas.
- Fold in the chopped white chocolate and divide mixture into into pans, spread evenly.
- Bake 30 minutes or until a tester inserted in center of the cakes comes out clean.
- Allow to cool ten minutes in the pans, then turn out onto a serving plate.
- Cream Cheese Icing: with electric beater cream cheese until smooth, then beat in the butter.
- Reduce speed and add icing sugar beating until smooth, stir in sour cream.
- To Assemble: When completely cool ice and garnish with large white chocolate curls made using a vegetable peeler.
- Note: have made this using layer cake pans as well as in a 9x13 pan which makes for a great 'bake and take'.
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