Spirited Banana Cake

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

Ingredients

• 2 1/3 cups sifted cake flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup mashed very ripe banana
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts

Recipe

• 1 grease two 8" round layer-cake pans; dust lightly with flour; tap out excess.
• 2 sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon onto wax paper.
• 3 stir buttermilk into mashed bananas in a small bowl.
• 4 beat butter, sugar, and eggs in a large bowl with electric mixer at high speed for 3 minutes.
• 5 finish mixing cake by hand.
• 6 stir in flour mixture alternately with banana-milk mixture, beating after each addition until butter is smooth.
• 7 stir in 1/4 teaspoons vanilla and the 1/4 cup chopped walnuts.
• 8 pour cake into prepared pans.
• 9 bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
• 10 cool layers in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes; loosen around edges with a knife; turn cakes out onto wire racks to cool completely.
• 11 frost with rum butter cream frosting. *optional*.