Eileen's Birthday Banana Cake With Buttercream Frosting

Total Time: 48 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 28 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 bananas, very ripe, mashed to equal 1 cup
• 1/4 cup buttermilk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees. grease & flour two 8-or 9-inch round cake pans, and line the bottoms with parchment.
• 2 cream the butter in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed. gradually add the sugar, 1/4 cup at a time, beating until pale & fluffy. blend in vanilla. add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 3 in another bowl,sift the flour with the baking powder,soda & salt.
• 4 in a another small bowl, combine mashed bananas & buttermilk.
• 5 to the creamed mixture add in the following order, beating on low speed after each addition just until blended: a third of the flour mixture,half the banana mixture,half the remaining flour mixture,the remaining banana mixture,then the remaining flour mixture.
• 6 spoon batter into pans. bake 25-30 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. let cool 5 to 10 minutes before inverting onto wire racks. cool before frosting.