Banana Sheet Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting Food

BANANA CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add bananas and milk; mix just until combined. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture just until blended., In another bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Fold into batter. Pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30-35 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack., In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add the confectioners' sugar, vanilla and salt; beat until smooth. Spread over cake. Store in the refrigerator. If desired, serve with sliced bananas.

BEST EVER BANANA CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275°F (135C).
• Grease and flour a 9 x 13 pan.
• In a small bowl, mix mashed banana with the lemon juice; set aside.
• In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream 3/4 cup butter and 2 1/8 cups sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, then stir in 2 tsp vanilla.
• Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk.
• Stir in banana mixture.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for one hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and place directly into the freezer for 45 minutes. This will make the cake very moist.
• For the frosting, cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth.
• Beat in 1 teaspoon vanilla.
• Add icing sugar and beat on low speed until combined, then on high speed until frosting is smooth.
• Spread on cooled cake.
• Sprinkle chopped walnuts over top of the frosting, if desired.

BANANA SHEET CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C) . Place the oven rack in the middle of the oven.
• Whisk together the dry ingredients: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
• Beat together the butter, sugars, and eggs: In a mixer, beat together butter and the sugars. Add eggs one at a time and beat.
• Mix in the vanilla and bananas: Add vanilla and bananas and beat until just mixed in.
• Mix in the flour and sour cream: Mix in half of the flour mixture, then the sour cream, then the other half of the flour mixture.
• Spread the batter in baking pan: Spread batter evenly in a greased 10- x15-inch baking pan. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 20 minutes, or until nicely browned and the surface bounces back when you press it with your finger. Cool completely before frosting.
• Make the frosting and frost the cake: To make the frosting, mix all of the ingredients together with an electric mixer. If too stiff to spread, add a teaspoon or two of water. Spread the frosting evenly over the cake and slice to serve.

BANANA SHEET CAKE WITH PASSION-FRUIT FROSTING

Steps:

• Cake: Preheat oven to 350°F. Brush a 9-by-13-inch or 8-by-12-inch baking pan with butter. Line with parchment, leaving a 2-inch overhang on long sides. Butter parchment.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Combine eggs and granulated sugar in the bowl of a mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Beat on high speed until thick and pale, about 4 minutes. Add flour mixture; beat just to combine. Add butter, bananas, cinnamon, and vanilla; beat to combine. Add sour cream; beat until smooth.
• Scrape batter into prepared pan, smoothing top with a spatula. Bake until top springs back when lightly touched and a tester inserted in center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes (for 9-by-13-inch) or about 40 minutes (for 8-by-12).
• Let cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes. Using parchment overhangs, lift cake out of pan and let cool completely on rack. (Cake can be made to this point and stored at room temperature, wrapped in plastic, up to 1 day.)
• Frosting: Beat together cream cheese, butter, confectioners' sugar, and passion-fruit juice on medium-high speed until smooth and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Spread over top of cake; drizzle with passion-fruit pulp. Frosted cake is best the day it's assembled, but can be refrigerated, wrapped in plastic, up to 1 day. Return to room temperature before serving.

BANANA CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• For the banana cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Mix on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt into a medium bowl. Set aside.
• Add the bananas to the butter mixture and mix until combined. Let the mixer do the work of mashing for you. Add the eggs one at a time and mix until well combined. Mix in the yogurt and vanilla. Turn the mixer to low and add the dry ingredients until just combined. Do not overmix.
• Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan. Bake until a cake tester or toothpick comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool in the pan for 5 to 10 minutes, then turn onto a wire rack and cool completely.
• For the cream cheese frosting: Using the electric mixer on high speed, blend the cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy, 4 to 5 minutes. With the mixer on low, add the confectioners' sugar and then the vanilla.
• Spread the frosting on top of the cake. Decorate around the perimeter of the cake with raspberries, if desired.

BANANA SNACK CAKE WITH DELICIOUS CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour a 8 or 9-inch square baking dish.
• In a large bowl, beat sugar, and butter until light and fluffy.
• Add in the mashed bananas, buttermilk, vanilla and egg; mix well.
• In a small bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
• Add into the creamed mixture; mix well.
• Stir in the nuts or chocolate chips.
• Spread the batter into prepared baking pan.
• Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the cake test done, and is a golden brown.
• Cool completely before frosting.
• For frosting: In a medium bowl, combine all frosting ingredients.
• Beat until smooth and creamy.
• Spread over cooled cake.

BANANA LAYER CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Coat 2-(8 inch) round cake pans with cooking spray; line bottoms with wax paper.
• Coat wax paper with cooking spray.
• Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a small mixing bowl, stirring well with a whisk.
• Place granulated sugar, oil, vanilla extract, egg whites, and egg in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended.
• Add mashed banana; beat well.
• Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture, begining and ending with flour mixture.
• Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake for 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool 10 minutes on wire racks; remove from pans.
• Peel off wax paper; cool completely on wire racks.
• To prepare frosting: place cream cheese and vanilla extract in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until fluffy.
• Add powdered sugar; beat at low speed until smooth.
• Place 1 cake layer on a plate; spread with 1/2 cup icing, and top with other cake layer.
• Spread remaining icing over top and sides of cake.
• Sprinkle pecans and coconut or/& chocolate curls over top of cake; all of these are optional.
• Cake is lovely as is!
• Store cake loosley covered in refrigerator.
• Enjoy, you have earned it.

BANANA CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Cream margarine and sugar.
• Add egg, bananas and vanilla.
• Blend well.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Add 1/3 of the dry ingredients to the banana mixture alternately with 1/2 of the milk.
• Blend after each addition.
• Pour into 9 inch square pan.
• Bake in 350F oven for 45-50 minutes.
• Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter together.
• Add powdered sugar to taste.

BANANA LAYER CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Lightly butter three 8-inch-diameter cake pans with 2-inch-high sides; dust pans with flour.
• Combine cake flour, baking soda, baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt in medium bowl.
• Mix mashed bananas, buttermilk and 1 teaspoon vanilla in another medium bowl.
• Using electric mixer, beat 1/2 cup butter and sugar in large bowl until blended.
• Add eggs 1 at a time, beating to blend after each addition.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with banana mixture in 3 additions, beginning and ending with dry ingredients and beating just until blended after each addition.
• Divide batter equally among prepared pans.
• Bake cakes until tops are just beginning to color and tester inserted into center comes out with a few crumbs attached, about 20 minutes.
• Cool cakes in pans on racks 10 minutes.
• Using small knife, cut around cakes to loosen; turn cakes out onto racks and cool completely.
• Beat cream cheese and remaining 1 cup butter in large bowl until light and fluffy.
• Beat in remaining 1 tablespoon vanilla and pinch of salt.
• Gradually beat in powdered sugar.
• Cover and refrigerate frosting until firm enough to spread, about 15 minutes.
• Place 1 cake layer on platter.
• Spread 1/2 cup frosting over top.
• Place half of sliced bananas evenly over frosting, leaving 1/4-inch border at edge.
• Place second cake layer on work surface.
• Spread 1/4 cup frosting over top.
• Place cake layer, frosting side down, atop bananas.
• Spread 1/2 cup frosting over top.
• Place remaining half of sliced bananas evenly over frosting, leaving 1/4-inch border at edge.
• Place third cake layer on work surface.
• Spread 1/4 cup frosting over top.
• Place cake layer, frosting side down, atop bananas.
• Spread remaining frosting over sides and top of cake. (Can be made 1 day ahead.
• Cover and chill.
• Let stand 1 hour at room temperature before serving.).