Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups flour
• 3/4 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 3 bananas, mashed
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans

Instructions:

1. Cream butter and sugar

2. Add in eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition

3. Sift dry ingredients

4. Stir together bananas, buttermilk, and vanilla.

5. Add dry ingredients to batter alternately with buttermilk mixture, beating until combined.

6. Add pecans to batter.

7. Spray pans with cooking spray or grease and flour pans. Pour batter into pans.

8. Bake 350 for 25-35 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

9. Place cakes on cooling rack for ten minutes, then pop out of pans and cool completely. Once cooled, add cream cheese frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting:

• 8 oz. cream cheese softened
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
• 1 3/4 to 2 1/4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
• 1 tsp vanilla
• finely chopped pecans for garnish

Instructions:

1. cream butter and cream cheese together

2. add powdered sugar

3. stir in vanilla

4. frost cake with cream cheese frosting, then top with pecans

5. refrigerate until ready to eat, refrigerate remaining cake.