Banana Cake W/chocolate Fudge Icing

Title:
Banana Cake W/chocolate Fudge Icing

Yield:
1 9" cake

Categories:
Desserts,
Fruits,
Chocolate




Ingredients:





          CAKE:


   1/2 c  Unsalted butter


   3/4 c  Granulated sugar


     2    Eggs


     1 ts Pure vanilla extract


     3    Ripe bananas, mashed


     2 c  All-purpose flour


     1 ts Baking soda


   1/4 c  Sour cream


          CHOCOLATE FUDGE ICING:


     4 oz Bittersweet or semisweet


          -chocolate


     2 tb Cocoa


   1/3 c  Milk


   1/4 c  Unsalted butter


 1 1/2 c  Icing sugar, sifted (more if


          -needed)


     1 ts Pure vanilla extract






 Preheat the oven to 350?F.  Butter a 9 inch springform pan (or heart-shaped


 pan.)


 


 Cream 1/2 cup butter until light.  Gradually beat in the granulated sugar.


 


 Add the eggs one at a time and beat after each addition. Beat in 1 tsp.


 vanilla and the mashed bananas.


 


 Sift or mix together the dry ingredients and add to the batter alternately


 with the sour cream.  Spoon the batter into the prepared pan evenly and


 bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the cake springs back when gently


 pressed in the centre.  Cool for 10 minutes and invert. Cool on a wire


 rack.


 


 For the icing, melt the chocolate, cocoa, milk and 1/4 cup butter in the


 top of a double boiler.  Cook until smooth and cool slightly.


 


 Beat in the icing sugar and 1 tsp. vanilla.  Place the bowl over a larger


 bowl of ice and water and stir until the icing is spreadable.


 


 Ice the cake and decorate as you wish.  Yield: One 9 inch Cake. Typed in


 MMFormat by cjhartlin@msn.com Source: Cooking with Bonnie Stern.


 


 Recipe by Cathy Luchetti's Hot Flash Cookbook


 Posted to MM-Recipes Digest  by "Cindy Hartlin" 


 on May 29, 1998