Banana Cake With Coconut Frosting

  1. Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350u0b0F.
  2. Lightly butter and flour a 9-inch round cake pan, knocking out excess flour.
  3. Whisk together flour (1 1/2 cups), baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl.
  4. Beat together butter (1 stick) and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until pale and fluffy. Beat in egg until combined, then add bananas, sour cream, and vanilla and beat until combined well. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture, mixing until just incorporated.
  5. Spread batter in cake pan and bake until pale golden and a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
  6. Cool in pan on a rack 10 minutes. Run a thin knife around edge of pan, then invert rack over cake and invert cake onto rack to cool completely.
  7. Beat together cream cheese and butter in a bowl using cleaned beaters at medium speed until smooth. Reduce speed to low, then add confectioners sugar, cream of coconut, and rum (if using) and mix until combined. Increase speed to high and beat until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
  8. Frost top of cooled cake and sprinkle with coconut.

unsalted butter, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, brown sugar, egg, wellmashed very ripe bananas, sour cream, vanilla, cream cheese, unsalted butter, confectioners sugar, cream of coconut, dark rum, coconut

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/banana-cake-with-coconut-frosting-233280 (may not work)

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