Banana Walnut Cake w/ fresh strawberries

By jmax

Ingredients

• Cake:
• 1/2 c. butter
• 1 1/3 c. sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 3 ripe banana's
• 2 c. flour
• 1/2 c. oats
• 1 1/2 c. baking powder
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/2 c. buttermilk
• Frosting:
• 4 oz. cream cheese
• 4 Tbs. butter
• 2 1/2 c. powered sugar
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 2 Tbs. buttermilk
• 1/2 c. walnuts (optional)
• 10 strawberries, cut and slightly smashed

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350

For Cake, cream butter, sugar, eggs, extract and banana's. Sift dry ingredients. Add alternately with buttermilk. Pour in 2 9inch rounds and bake for 25 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.

For frosting, Mix cream cheese and butter till smooth then add p. sugar, vanilla, buttermilk and nuts.


This is layer cake so you will need to put frosting in-between cake layers, then frost around the whole cake.

Serve fresh cut strawberries over slices.