Dad's Favorite Banana Cake

Moist banana cake with banana icing.

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Serves: 16
• Yields: 1 Cake

Ingredients

• 2⁄3 cup shortening
• 1 2⁄3 cups sugar
• 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1⁄4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄4 cups  mashed bananas
• 2⁄3 cup buttermilk
• 2  eggs

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Blend shortening and sugar together in a mixing bowl with electric mixer. Mix together in a bowl, or on a piece of waxed paper, flour, soda, powder, salt. Add dry ingredients into mixer. Add bananas and half of the buttermilk, mix until moistened. Beat for two minutes on medium speed. Add the rest of the buttermilk and the eggs, beating two more minutes. Pour into two greased and floured nine inch cake pans and bake at 350 degrees until done-approximately 30 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes in pans, then remove from pans to finish cooling. When cool frost with banana icing.