Southern fresh banana layer cake
Southern fresh banana layer cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 3/4 cup, 1 1/2 sticks, butter, at room temperature
- 2 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 3 eggs, well beaten
- 5 ripe bananas, mashed
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup finely chopped pecans
- Frosting and filling:
- 1/2 cup mashed bananas
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 cup, 1 stick, butter, at room temperature
- 1 pound confectioners sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 ripe bananas, sliced thin
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Grease and flour three 9 inch cake pans.
- Sift together flour and baking soda and set aside.
- Put butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl and cream together until smooth.
- Slowly pour in the eggs, mixing well between each addition.
- Stir in the mashed bananas.
- Add dry ingredients and buttermilk alternately, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
- Stir in vanilla extract and pecans.
- Divide batter among prepared pans and bake for 25 minutes or until the tops all brown and the edges pull away from the pans, or a wooden pick inserted in the middle of a cake comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 to 10 minutes, then turn out onto racks to cool completely.
- Frosting and filling:
- In a small bowl, mix mashed bananas and lemon juice together and set aside.
- In another bowl, with an electric mixer, cream together butter and sugar.
- Add mashed bananas, blending well.
- Stir in vanilla extract.
- To assemble, spread a layer of icing on one of the cake rounds, then top with a layer of sliced bananas.
- Place the second cake layer on top of the bananas and repeat with more icing, then bananas.
- After placing the third layer on top, smooth the icing over the sides and top of the cake with the remaining frosting.
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