[luvinmykidz]

Where is the drooling smiley?????

Just made this tonight!! DELICIOUS!!!

Chocolate Banana coffee cake with chocolate cream cheese icing!!

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/4 cup cake flour
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
2 bananas, soft and mashed
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tbs instant coffee, dissolved in 1 tsp water
1 tsp vanilla

PREPARATION:

Preheat oven to 350F, and grease a 10-inch Bundt pan. In a large mixing bowl, combing flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. In another small bowl, mix bananas and sour cream. In yet another bowl, beat butter and sugars together until fluffy. Add eggs to the butter mixture, 1 at a time, mixing in between. Beat in espresso and vanilla. Beat in flour mixture, alternating with the banana mixture. Pour batter into bundt pan and bake for 50 minutes. Let cool before removing from pan.

Frosting:
Makes: 4 cups, enough to frost a 2- or 3-layer cake
Preparation time: 10 minutes

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, at room temperature

8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, at room temperature

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 teaspoon pure almond extract or pure vanilla extract

4 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted

Place the cream cheese and butter in a large mixing bowl. Blend with an electric mixer on low speed until combined, 30 seconds. Stop the machine. Add the cocoa powder, extract, and confectioners' sugar and blend with the mixer on low speed until the ingredients are moistened, 30 seconds. Increase the speed to medium and beat until the frosting is

fluffy, 2 minutes more.

Use at once to frost the top and sides of the cake of your choice

YUMMY!!!!