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Banana Cake with Coffee (Mocha) Icing

Ingredients

For the cake

  • 1 stick butter softened
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 3/4 cup buttermilk or milk with Tbs. vinegar stirred in
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 2 mashed bananas

For the icing

  • 1/4 cup butter softened
  • 1/2 cup cocoa
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1/3-1/2 cup cold coffee

Instructions

For the cake

  • Cream the butter and sugar in a mixer bowl.
  • Add the eggs, milk and vanilla. Mix till blended.
  • Stir the baking soda and salt into the flour, then add the dry ingredients to the wet. Mix well.
  • Add in the bananas. Mix well.
  • Spread into a greased 10″x15″ pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  • Cool completely before frosting.

For the icing

  • Whip butter and cocoa together with electric mixer.
  • Add powdered sugar, vanilla and a little coffee.
  • Continue to mix and add coffee by the Tbs. until frosting reaches a spreadable consistency.
  • Frost cooled cake.