Banana Cake with Chocolate Frosting

Ingredients:

3 large ripe bananas, mashed 1 ½ cups
1 cup of buttermilk or 1 cup of milk with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice added
2 cups of all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons of baking soda
¼ teaspoon of salt
½ cup of oil
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 ½ cups of sugar
3/8 of a stick of butter, softened
2 cups of confectioners’ sugar
¾ cup of cocoa powder
4 tablespoons of milk
2 tablespoons of Dessert Spice

Heat oven to 275F. Grease a 13×9 cake pan with oil and flour. Place mashed bananas in a bowl. Add buttermilk to bananas. In another bowl cream sugar, oil, eggs, 1 tablespoon of Dessert Spice, baking soda and vanilla. Add bananas and buttermilk to the mixture. Add the flour to the mixture. Pour batter in the cake pan and bake for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Immediately place the cake in the freezer uncovered for 45 minutes. This will make the cake very moist! To make the frosting get a mixing bowl and place the confectioner’s sugar, cocoa powder, 1 tablespoon of Dessert Spice, butter and one tablespoon of milk at a time. Keep mixing and adding milk until the desired consistency is achieved. Frost the top of the cooled cake. Makes 12 servings.