Ingredients

  • Cake
  • 3 cups flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 cups finely chopped bananas
  • 3/4 cup chopped nuts (optional)
  • 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
  • 3 eggs, beaten
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, undrained
  • Frosting
  • 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 -3 tablespoon milk

Method

  • Preheat oven to 350°.
  • Grease and flour 9 or 10-inch tube pan, or 3 9-inch layer cake pans.
  • Set aside.
  • Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon into a large bowl.
  • Add bananas, nuts, oil, eggs, vanilla, and pineapple, stirring by hand (do not use electric mixer).
  • Pour batter into prepared tube pan and bake for 70 minutes, or layer pans for 25-30 minutes.
  • Let cool in pans for 10 minutes, then remove from pans and cool completely on wrack.
  • While cake is cooling, mix cream cheese and butter until combined.
  • Stir in vanilla.
  • Gradually add powdered sugar, alternating with milk, until desired consistency is reached.
  • Frost on cooled cake.