Banana cake with cream cheese frosting

A delicious cake with a flavor of banana, cinnamon and walnuts. The lightly sour cream cheese frosting is a fresh contrast to the sweet and moist cake, and the walnuts gives a crunchy texture. * The cake is best stored in plastic wrap in the refrigerator, and can be made one day ahead. The walnuts and cinnamon is of course optional. Good luck in the kitchen! * ♥ *

Ingredients: Banana cake • 100 grams butter (softened and unsalted) • 3 deciliters granulated sugar • 2 eggs • ½ deciliter whole milk • 5 deciliters all-purpose flour • 1 teaspoon baking powder • 1 teaspoon baking soda • 2 teaspoons cinnamon • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract • 2 ripe bananas; approx. 400 grams (Fairtrade marked, please) • 50 grams chopped walnuts (optional) • butter and flour to the baking tin Frosting • 150 grams butter (unsalted) • 2 packages (à 200 grams) cream cheese (ex. Philadelphia) • 5 deciliters icing sugar • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract Decoration • Dried banana chips • Grounded cinnamon • Chopped walnuts How to do: 1. Let's make the banana cake first. Set the oven to 175 ° Celsius. Grease and flour a round baking tin with a high edge, about 20 cm in diameter and 5 cm high. 2. Beat the softened butter with the sugar so it turns white and fluffy. Then beat in the eggs - one at the time. Make sure everything is well mixed. 3. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and vanilla sugar in a separate bowl. Then add it to the butter mixture - fold gently. 4. Mash the bananas (goes easiest on a plate with a fork) and add them with the milk and walnuts into the batter as well. Pour the batter into the baking tin. 5. Bake in the lower part of the oven for about 1 hour. Test with a toothpick if the cake is finished - it should be compact but not uncooked and sticky. Let the cake cool in the banking tin for 10 minutes, then turn it out on a cooling rack to cool completely. 6. While the cake cools, make the frosting. Beat butter and cream cheese white and fluffy. Sift in the icing sugar and vanilla. Beat for about three minutes with an electric mixer so everything is well blended, light and fluffy. 7. Cut the cooled cake horizontally into four layers with a long serrated knife. Spread half of the frosting between each layer of cake and then cover the whole cake with frosting using a spatula (or a breadknife). 8. Then you can decorate the cake however you like! I have chosen to decorate with dried banana chips, ground cinnamon and chopped walnuts on the top (so you kind of get an idea of ​​what the cake contains). Done!

These photos turned out so great and beautiful! Probably the best photos I have made so far. I was so happy with the light, the colors, the arrangement and of course the cake itself! *

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