Ingredients
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1/2 cup butter (room temperature)
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2/3 cup sugar
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2 eggs
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2 teaspoons vanilla
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2 1/2 cups pastry flour
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2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
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1/2 teaspoon baking soda
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1 teaspoon cinnamon
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1 1/2 cups mashed bananas
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1 cup white chocolate (chopped)
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1/4 cup white chocolate (for garnish,may use more if you wish)
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2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese (room temperature)
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6 tablespoons butter (room temperature)
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1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Cake: Preheat oven to 350, grease and flour 2 9 inch cake pans.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, beat in eggs and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, 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 9x13 pan which makes for a great 'bake and take'.