WHITE CHOCOLATE AND BANANA CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE ICING
Ingredients
125 ml butter (room temperature)
170 ml castor sugar
2 eggs10 ml vanilla
650 ml cake flour
15 ml baking powder
3 ml bicarbonate of soda
5 ml cinnamon
5 ml salt
375 ml mashed bananas
250 ml white chocolate(chopped)
80 ml white choc(for garnish,may use more if you wish)
Cream cheese icing
2 packages cream cheese (room temperature)(philadelphia)
75 ml butter (room temperature)
250 ml icing sugar (sifted)
50 ml sour cream
Cake
-Preheat oven to 180, grease and flour 2 large cake pans. (old 9-inch-pans)
-Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, beat in eggs and vanilla.
-In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, bicarb, cinnamon and salt, add to creamed mixture alternately with the mashed bananas.
-Fold in the chopped white chocolate and divide mixture into into pans, spread evenly.
-Bake 30 minutes or until a tester inserted in center of the cakes comes out clean.
-Allow to cool ten minutes in the pans, then turn out onto a serving plate.
Cream Cheese Icing
-With electric beater cream cheese until smooth, then beat in the butter.
-Reduce speed and add icing sugar beating until smooth, stir in sour cream.
To Assemble
When completely cool ice and garnish with large white chocolate curls made using a vegetable peeler.
Note: have made this using layer cake pans as well as in a 9×13 pan which makes for a great ‘bake and take’.
Recipe by Fatima Shah
