Granny's Banana Cake Recipe

Granny's Banana Cake Recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups bananas, mashed, ripe
2 teaspoons lemon juice
3 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter, softened
2 1/8 cups sugar
3 large eggs
1 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
Frosting
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
3 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar
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  Directions

1. Preheat oven to 275°. Grease and flour a 9 x 13 pan.
2. In a small bowl, mix mashed banana with the lemon juice; set aside.
3. In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
4. In a large bowl, cream 3/4 cup butter and 2 1/8 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then stir in 1 tsp vanilla & 1 tsp almond extract.
5.Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Stir in banana mixture.
6. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for one hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
7. Remove from oven and place directly into the freezer for 45 minutes. This will make the cake very moist.
8. For the frosting, cream the butter until smooth. Beat in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla & 1/2 teaspoon almond extract.
Add icing sugar and beat on low speed until combined, then on high speed until frosting is smooth.
9. Spread on cooled cake. 
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Okay, so I know baking the cake at 275 for an hour seems like a long time and a really low temp for a cake, usually I bake cakes at 350 at about half the time. For some reason, this cake baking at 275 and then putting it straight in the freezer makes it really moist.
This is a yummy recipe! If you don't want to use almond extract in the cake and frosting, you can just go ahead and use vanilla extract instead. Not a big problem, just a little different taste and either way you do it is good! 

This cake is for my Grandma's 94th Birthday and she has a hard time making cakes these days but still loves eating this cake! Usually I don't decorate a banana cake but I layered & decorated this one for this special occasion! 

And yes, I really need a lot of work with my writing on and decorating cakes!