Banana Cake With Bourbon Cream Cheese Frosting

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

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 4 ripe bananas, mashed
• 2/3 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 (8 ounce) box cream cheese, softened
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 50 ml bourbon (an airline bottle)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°.
• 2 grease and flour two 8" round pans.
• 3 in a small bowl whisk together flour, soda, and salt.
• 4 in a large bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar until fluffy.
• 5 beat in eggs one at a time.
• 6 mix in bananas*.
• 7 add flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk to the creamed mixture.
• 8 pour into cake pans.
• 9 bake for 30 minutes.
• 10 while the cake is baking, make frosting: beat butter and cream cheese until smooth, then add powdered sugar and bourbon- if the amount of booze scares you, add less, or use bourbon flavoring.
• 11 *wefreeze overripe bananas- when it's time to use them, we place them in a cup of hot water for just a few minutes, and they slide right out of their peel.
• 12 once the cakes cool, frost them- the cake (stacked) is pretty heavy and dense, so don't expect a tall fluffy cake.
• 13 stays moist for days if covered properly.