Banana Birthday Cake With Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients:

For cake:

1 stick of butter (equivalent to ½ cup)

1 cup white granulated sugar

¾ cup light brown sugar

2 eggs

4 ripe bananas, mashed

2.5 cups flour

1 tbsp baking soda

1 pinch salt

⅔ cup buttermilk

½ cup chopped walnuts

For icing:

6 oz cream cheese (equivalent to ¾ of a package), room temperature

½ stick of butter (equivalent to 4 tbsp), room temperature

2 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp lemon juice

Steps to make cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease and flour a 9x13 cake pan.

2. In a large bowl, use a mixer to cream butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time and beat.

3. Mix in the bananas.

4. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and salt.

5. Add the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk mixture to the creamed mixture.

6. Stir in the chopped walnuts. Pour batter into pan.

7. Bake for 30 minutes.

8. To make icing, beat all icing ingredients with a mixer. Let cake cool before spreading.