Banana Cake

Banana Cake

½ cup butter
1 ½ cups sugar
2 large eggs, beaten
2 cups flour, sifted
½ tsp of salt
¼ tsp baking powder
½ cup milk
¼ tsp vanilla
¾ tsp baking soda (add to pureed bananas)
3 pureed bananas, very ripe

Cream Cheese Frosting (I included this but I don’t like to put frosting on this cake, I think it takes away from the banana taste of the cake).
    ½ stick butter, softened
    8 oz cream cheese, softened
    1 box powdered sugar (1 lb)
    2 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 9x13 baking pan or two 9” layer cake pans

Cream butter, sugar and eggs.  Sift flour several times, then add the salt and baking powder to the flour.

To the creamed butter mixture, add the milk and flour (alternating, beginning and ending with flour).

Add vanilla and mashed bananas (with the baking soda added to the bananas) to this mixture.

Bake layer cakes (9”) for 25-30 minutes, oblong (9x13”) for 35-40 minutes.

Frosting directions: Mix cream cheese and butter until smooth, add sugar and vanilla and blend well.  Spread on cooled cake.