Banana Cake with Brown Butter Frosting

• Vegetarian

• Produce

  • 1 1/2 cups Banana

• Refrigerated

  • 3 Eggs

• Baking & Spices

  • 3 cups All-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp Baking soda
  • 4 cups Icing sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups Sugar
  • 3 1/2 tsp Vanilla

• Dairy

  • 1 cup Brown butter
  • 3/4 cup Butter
  • 1/2 cup Milk

Found on rockrecipes.com

Description

Directions

• Lightly grease and flour two 9 inch round cake pans. Line the bottoms with parchment paper for easy release form the pans later.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder and baking soda and set aside.
• Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Beat in the vanilla extract.
• Mix together the banana puree and milk.
• Fold in the dry ingredients alternately with the pureed banana/milk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. I generally add the dry ingredients in 3 portions and the banana in 2 portions. Be careful not to overmix or you risk toughening the cake texture.
• Spread the batter equally into the prepared pans and bake for 35-40 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
• Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before turning the cakes out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
• To brown butter just melt it in a small saucepan over medium heat and watch it carefully until the color turns light golden brown.
• Pour it off immediately into a heat proof measuring cup, leaving the sediment behind. (Or most of the sediment, I actually add a 1/2 tsp or so of it to the frosting for flavour.)
• Allow the brown butter to cool to room temperature and solidify.
• Beat all ingredients together until smooth, fluffy, and a spreadable consistency. Use a couple of tablespoons of milk to begin and add more if need be, or of it becomes too thin, just add a couple more tablespoons of icing sugar at a time to get to the proper consistency.
• Frost the middle and top of the cake. If you want to completely frost the cake sides too, you can double the frosting recipe.