Brown Family Banana Cake with Penuche Frosting

I have a had quite a few requests for the recipe for Banana Cake, and so I thought I would post it on my blog.  This is a family recipe, and a true favorite of the Browns.  My favorite part is the Penuche frosting - so amazing, that I have made it by itself before and ate it like it was fudge.  So good! I hope you enjoy it as much as we do :).

Banana Cake

Sift together the following ingredients:

• 2 c. flour            
• 1 t. baking powder
• 3/4 t. salt           
• 1 t. baking soda
• 1 1/2 c. sugar

Mix together:         

• 1/2 c. shortening       
• 1 t. vanilla         
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 c. buttermilk (milk with 1/4 t. lemonjuice)
• 1 c. mashed bananas (about 3 bananas)

Beat together dry and wet ingredients about 3 minutes.  Pour into greased 9x13 pan. Bake at 350 for 35 minutes.  Frost with Penuche frosting.

Penuche Frosting      

• 1/4 c. milk or cream
• 1/2 c. butter/marg.
• 1 c. brown sugar
• 2 c. powdered sugar

In a small saucepan, put in milk, brown sugar, and butter.  Stirring constantly, bring to a boil, and boil 1 1/2 minutes.  Remove from heat and beat in the powdered sugar until it is a spreading consistency.  (You may want to add a little extra powdered sugar.)  Frost while still warm.

Comments

[jill]

mmmm. I love anything with browned butter. I have a RS thing next week and I'm going to take this!! thanks for sharing the recipe.