A few weeks ago, I found this recipe on Pinterest and I had honestly been thinking about it ever since.  Last Wednesday, I was having my friends over for dinner so I decided I should probably make it then so that I would have people to help me eat it (and not devour it all myself and become the size of a house).  Other then the fact that it tastes like heaven, the best thing about this cake is you can make it in very little time.  Like I got home from work at 5:30 and my friends were coming at 7 and I had enough time to fluff my house, make this cake, and prepare the mango salsa that went with my dinner by the time they got here.  That’s what I call efficient, people.

 “To Die For” Banana Cake with Vanilla Frosting

from Butter Yum

This recipe makes enough for an 8X8 pan, but I didn’t have that so I doubled it for a 9X13 pan which worked well

Cake:

– 2/3 cup sugar

– 1/2 cup sour cream

– 1 egg

– 2 tbsp unsalted butter, softened

– 2 mashed super ripe bananas (my bananas were not ripe enough yet so I compensated by adding a little more sugar when the batter didn’t taste sweet enough for my liking)

– 1 tsp pure vanilla extract (I added a touch more because I always add a touch more vanilla.  It is one of my hard and fast baking rules.)

– 1 cup flour

– 1/4 tsp salt

– 1/2 tsp baking soda

Frosting:

– 2 tbsp unsalted butter

– 1/4 cup heavy cream

– 3/4 tsp vanilla extract (the original recipe calls for 1/2 tsp vanilla bean paste but I surely didn’t have that and was also out of regular vanilla beans.  Regular vanilla extract worked just fine.  Also, please don’t buy imitation vanilla.  That’s gross.)

– 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar

Directions:

Cake:

Preheat oven to 375 (350 if you are using a glass pan).  Cream together sugar, sour cream, egg, and butter.  Mash up your bananas and add those and the vanilla. Mix in flour, salt and baking soda and pour into a greased 8X8 pan.  Bake for 20-25 minutes until a toothpick inserted in comes out clean.

Frosting:

Cream butter and sugar.  Slowly add cream and then vanilla and mix until smooth.  Spread on cake once it is cool.

Just make it and you can thank me later.