Banana Chocolate Cake With Cream Cheese Icing

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups pastry flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas
• 1 cup chocolate, chopped, plus some for garnish
• 2 (1 lb) packages cream cheese, room temperature
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 cup icing sugar, sifted
• 4 tablespoons sour cream

Recipe

• 1 cake.
• 2 preheat oven to 350°f grease and flour 2 9-inch cake pans.
• 3 cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. beat in eggs and vanilla extract.
• 4 in a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. add to creamed mixture alternately with bananas.
• 5 fold in chopped chocolate. scrape batter into pans and spread evenly.
• 6 bake for 30 minutes until a tester inserted in the center of the cakes comes out clean.
• 7 allow to cool 10 minutes in the pans, then turn out onto a plate.
• 8 cream cheese icing.
• 9 beat cream cheese until smooth. beat in butter.
• 10 reduce speed and add icing sugar, and beat until smooth. stir in sour cream.
• 11 to assemble.
• 12 ice cake completely and garnish with large chocolate curls (done by using a vegetable peeler).