Saturday, August 21, 2010

Diane's Banana Cake with Orange Icing

I was looking for something different to do with ripening bananas, this recipe is fantastic!

Cake –
¼ cup softened butter or margarine
¾ cup sugar
2 eggs
1 t. vanilla
1 cup mashed ripe bananas
1 t. grated orange rind
2 cups flour
2 t. baking powder
1 t. baking soda
½ buttermilk or sour cream

In a bowl cream butter and add sugar, mix well.
Add eggs 1 at a time beating well after each addition.
Beat in vanilla, bananas, and orange rind.
In a separate bowl mix together flour, baking powder and baking soda.
Stir into egg mixture alternating with buttermilk (or sour cream).
Grease and flour a 9 inch baking pan or a bundt pan.
Bake at 350o for 40 minutes or until cake springs back. Cool for 20 minutes and remove from pan, cool completely before icing.

(I think this would be awesome with a handful of chocolate chips thrown in too, but what isn’t?)

Icing –
1½ cups powdered sugar
2 T. yoghurt
1 t. orange rind
1 t. orange juice

Mix all ingredients together until smooth, spread over cake.

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