Georgia's Banana Cake

Recipe Rating:	1 Rating5
Categories:	Cakes, Fruit Desserts
Keywords:	pecans, bananas, Buttercream

Ingredients

CAKE:
2/3 c	shortening
2 1/2 c	cake flour, sifted
1 2/3 c	sugar
1 1/4 tsp	baking powder
1 tsp	baking soda
1 tsp	salt
1 1/4 c	bananas, mashed
2/3 c	buttermilk
2 large	eggs
2/3 c	pecans, chopped
BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
1/3 c	butter, softened
1 pkg	(8 oz) cream cheese, softened
1 box	powdered sugar (16 oz)
1 large	egg yolk
1 1/2 tsp	vanilla
2 Tbsp	milk

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Debbie Quimby

Well Seasoned

Vicksburg, MS (pop. 23,856)

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Member Since Jan 2013

Debbie's Notes:

A dear friend of our family, and my niece's mother-in-law, gave us this recipe. It's delicious.

Directions

For the cake: Do NOT use a mixer ... Stir shortening to soften; sift in dry ingredients. Add bananas and 1/2 of the buttermilk. Mix until flour is dampened.

Beat vigorously by hand for 2 minutes. Add remaining buttermilk and eggs; beat 2 minutes longer by hand. Fold in nuts.

Pour into 2 greased and floured round cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees for app. 35 minutes.

Remove from oven and cool on wire rack before inverting onto cake plan and frosting.

For the frosting: Mixer allowed. Cream butter and cream cheese gradually with about 1/2 box of sugar; blend well.

Beat in egg yolk and vanilla; gradually blend in remaining sugar. Add enough milk to make frosting a good spreading consistency. Ice layers.

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Feb 6, 2013

Hi Debbie,
Thank you for sharing, it sounds and looks great. I want to try it however, I don't want to use raw egg yolk for the icing. Can that be replaced with anything else?