georgia's banana cake

Vicksburg, MS
Updated on Feb 5, 2013

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

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Ingredients

  • CAKE:
  • 2/3 cup shortening
  • 2 1/2 cups cake flour, sifted
  • 1 2/3 cups sugar
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/4 cups bananas, mashed
  • 2/3 cup buttermilk
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2/3 cup pecans, chopped
  • BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
  • 1/3 cup butter, softened
  • 1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
  • 1 box powdered sugar (16 oz)
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 tablespoons milk

How To Make georgia's banana cake

  • Step 1
    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.
  • Step 2
    Beat vigorously by hand for 2 minutes. Add remaining buttermilk and eggs; beat 2 minutes longer by hand. Fold in nuts.
  • Step 3
    Pour into 2 greased and floured round cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees for app. 35 minutes.
  • Step 4
    Remove from oven and cool on wire rack before inverting onto cake plan and frosting.
  • Step 5
    For the frosting: Mixer allowed. Cream butter and cream cheese gradually with about 1/2 box of sugar; blend well.
  • Step 6
    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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Category: Cakes
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