Banana Cake With Citrus Cream Cheese Filling

Photo: Lady Catherine Gourmet

Ingredients

Cake:

4 very ripe bananas

3 eggs

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

2 cups sugar

2 teaspoons Vanilla

1 cup milk

Filling:

8 ounces package cream cheese

1 cup powdered sugar

1 teaspoon lemon zest

1 teaspoon lemon juice

Preparation

Preheat Oven 350:

In a large bowl place bananas and beat with an electric mixer, add the butter and eggs and continue to beat until smooth.

In a medium bowl combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and sugar and mix.

Combine the banana mixture with the dry ingredients and mix. Add the milk and vanilla and continue to mix.

Divide the batter between two equal size pans and bake for 30 – 35 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool and prepare the filling.

For the filling combine the cream cheese, powdered sugar, lemon zest and lemon juice.

Mix in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth.

When the cake is cool carefully remove from the baking dish and spread the filling on one cake and top with the other cake. Dust the top of the cake with powdered sugar.