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I came across this banana cake recipe on one of the food forums I frequent. The minute I saw this recipe I knew I HAD to make it. Of course, I added it to the “to bake” list, and, well, I’m VERY upset that I waited this long to make it! The name says it all!! This is in fact the *BEST* banana cake, EVER!!! It’s pretty safe to say that I will never make any other banana cake (or bread) recipe, as this WILL be my new go to recipe. I can’t even begin to tell you how moist and flavorful this cake is. After my husband took his first bite, the first words out of his mouth were, “DON’T take ANY of this to work tomorrow!” haha!! I promise this recipe will NOT disappoint!! MmMmm…Mmmmm…MmmmMmmmm, GOOD!!.

I didn’t end up frosting the cake ’cause I thought it was perfect without it!!

[recipe posted below photo]

Best Ever Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Adapted from Recipezaar.com

Ingredients

Cake:

1 1/2 cups bananas, mashed, ripe
2 teaspoons lemon juice
3 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter, softened
2 1/8 cups sugar
3 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 1/2 cups buttermilk

Frosting :[I omitted the frosting 'cause the cake, in my opinion, was perfect without it]

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, softened
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 1/2 cups icing sugar

Garnish [I omitted this]

chopped walnuts

Directions:

Preheat oven to 275°.

Grease and flour a 9 x 13 pan. [I made mine in a bundt cake pan, so it took longer to cook]

In a small bowl, mix mashed banana with the lemon juice; set aside.

In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.

In a large bowl, cream 3/4 cup butter and 2 1/8 cups sugar until light and fluffy.

Beat in eggs, one at a time, then stir in 2 tsp vanilla.

Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk.

Stir in banana mixture.

Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for one hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean [mine took about 1-1/2 hours, but I started checking it after 1 hour].

Remove from oven and place directly into the freezer for 45 minutes. This will make the cake very moist.

For the frosting, cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth.

Beat in 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Add icing sugar and beat on low speed until combined, then on high speed until frosting is smooth.

Spread on cooled cake.

Sprinkle chopped walnuts over top of the frosting, if desired.

Enjoy!!!!