Decadent Banana Cake With Coconut-Cream Cheese Frosting
(from saymyname’s recipe box)
Source: Southren Living
Serves 10 peopleCategories: Bananas, Cake, Dessert
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups cake flour, plus
- 5 1/2 tablespoons cake flour
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 4 large ripe bananas, mashed (about 2 cups)
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- Coconut-Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- 2 teaspoons milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups sweetened flaked coconut
Directions
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To make the cake: sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
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In a bowl, beat the butter at medium speed using an electric mixer, until creamy.
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Add in sugar; beat until light and fluffy.
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Add in eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition.
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Beat in bananas at low speed.
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Increase speed to medium, and gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
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Pour batter into 2 greased/floured 9-inch round cake pans.
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Bake in a 350° oven for 30 minutes or until a pick comes out clean.
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Cool in pans on wire rack for 10 minutes; remove from pans, and cool completely on wire racks.
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To make the frosting: in a bowl, beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed using an electric mixer, until creamy.
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Gradually add powdered sugar, beating at low speed until blended.
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Beat at high speed until smooth.
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Stir in milk and vanilla; stir in coconut.
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Spread Coconut-Cream Cheese Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.