Banana and White Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Created by Gerry on November 9, 2011
- Servings: 12
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 30m
- Recipe #2301
Ingredients
- CAKE
- 1/2 cup butter (room temperature)
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas
- 1 cup white chocolate (chopped)
- 1/4 cup white chocolate (for garnish,may use more if you wish)
- CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
- 2 packages (8 ounce each) cream cheese (room temperature)
- 6 tablespoons butter (room temperature)
- 1 cup icing sugar (sifted)
- 4 tablespoons sour cream
How to Make
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Step 1: Cake, preheat oven to 350, grease and flour 2 9 inch cake pans
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Step 2: Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, beat in eggs and vanilla
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Step 3: In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt, add to creamed mixture alternately with the mashed bananas
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Step 4: Fold in the chopped white chocolate and divide mixture into into pans, spread evenly
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Step 5: Bake 30 minutes or until a tester inserted in centre of the cakes comes out clean.
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Step 6: Allow to cool ten minutes in the pans, then turn out onto wire racks
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Step 7: Cream Cheese Icing, with electric beater cream cheese until smooth, then beat in the butter.
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Step 8: Reduce speed and add icing sugar beating until smooth, stir in sour cream.
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Step 9: When completely cool ice and garnish with large white chocolate curls made using a vegetable peeler.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (148.9 g)
- Calories 518.4
- Total Fat - 26.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 10 g
- Cholesterol - 52.1 mg
- Sodium - 380.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 66.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.6 g
- Sugars - 42.6 g
- Protein - 6.4 g
- Calcium - 111.8 mg
- Iron - 0.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 2.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg