Banana Cake and Icing {Recipe}

My mom makes the best banana cake I have ever had, and sometimes it gets taken up a notch when she makes it with brown sugar frosting. Since I was a little kid my mom has made this. I started attempting to make it when I was a teenager, and even recently I have tried but it never turns out the same. There are just some things mom makes best. So when I had a serious pregnancy craving for some I messaged my mom asking if I could get her help making it so that it would actually turn out. Well, I didn’t hear back from my mom which is not normal. Instead when we visited a couple days later she had a whole cake ready to go for me. My mom really is the best. I was one happy pregnant lady. I had several people ask for this recipe, and my mom kindly shared.

Banana Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting

2015-07-30 16:40:55

A delicious alternative to making banana bread, sometimes you just want something a little less dense, and perfect with a cup of tea or milk. This banana cake is great with or without the brown sugar icing.

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Ingredients

1. Banana Cake
2. 1 c. white sugar
3. 2 eggs
4. 1/2 c. oil
5. 1 3/4 c. flour
6. 2 tsp. baking powder
7. 1/4 tsp. salt
8. 1 tsp. soda - dissolve in 1 Tbsp. sour milk (add a bit of vinegar to milk to sour it)
9. 1 c. mashed banana
10. 3 more Tbsp. milk
11. 1 tsp. vanilla
12. Brown Sugar Frosting
13. 1/2 c. butter
14. 1/2 c. brown sugar
15. 1/4 c. milk
16. 2 to 2 1/2 c. icing sugar (or enough for desired consistency)
17. 1 tsp. vanilla

Instructions

1. For the Cake: Beat sugar, eggs and oil.
2. Mix dry ingredients together.
3. Mix banana, milk, vanilla and soda mixture together.
4. Add dry ingredients and banana mixture alternately to the egg mixture until well mixed.
5. Bake in a 9 x 9 pan at 350 degrees for 35 - 40 minutes or until cake springs back when touched.
6. For the frosting: Melt butter in small saucepan. Add brown sugar and cook until sugar melts. Remove from heat and stir in milk.
7. Cool. Beat in enough icing sugar to make a good spreading consistency. Add vanilla.
8. Yield: Enough for an 8 or 9 inch square cake.

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