Spirited Banana Cake

• 2 13 cups sifted cake flour
• 2 12 teaspoons baking powder
• 12 teaspoon baking soda
• 12 teaspoon salt
• 12 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup mashed very ripe banana
• 12 cup buttermilk
• 12 cup butter (1 stick)
• 1 14 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 14 teaspoon vanilla
• 14 cup chopped walnuts

1. Grease two 8" round layer-cake pans; dust lightly with flour; tap out excess.
2. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon onto wax paper.
3. Stir buttermilk into mashed bananas in a small bowl.
4. Beat butter, sugar, and eggs in a large bowl with electric mixer at high speed for 3 minutes.
5. Finish mixing cake by hand.
6. Stir in flour mixture alternately with banana-milk mixture, beating after each addition until butter is smooth.
7. Stir in 1/4 teaspoons vanilla and the 1/4 cup chopped walnuts.
8. Pour cake into prepared pans.
9. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
10. Cool layers in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes; loosen around edges with a knife; turn cakes out onto wire racks to cool completely.
11. Frost with Rum Butter Cream Frosting.
12. *optional*.

cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon, banana, buttermilk, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, walnuts

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/spirited-banana-cake-204469 (may not work)