Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

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

Steps

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.
10. Cream Cheese Frosting:
11. 8 oz. cream cheese softened
12. 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
13. 1 3/4 to 2 1/4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
14. 1 tsp vanilla
15. finely chopped pecans for garnish
16. cream butter and cream cheese together
17. add powdered sugar
18. stir in vanilla
19. frost cake with cream cheese frosting, then top with pecans
20. refrigerate until ready to eat, refrigerate remaining cake.