Description

The Banana Butterfinger Cake is an impressive looking cake. The rum, bananas provide the flavour whilst the butterfingers give a fun crunchiness to this cake recipe. Fun to make, the children will enjoy helping with this cake.

Prep 40 min |

Cooking 30 min |

Total 1 hr 30 min + cooling |

x2 9in Cake Pans

Ingredients

• 2 c — ripe Bananas, mashed
• 2 1/4 c — Cake Flour
• 1 tsp — Baking powder
• 1/2 tsp — Salt
• 1/2 c — Unsalted Butter
• 1 1/2 c — Sugar
• 3 — large Eggs
• 1 tbsp — Dark Rum
• 1 tsp — Vanilla Extract
• 3/4 c — Sour Cream
• 1 tsp — Baking Soda
• 1 1/4 c — Butterfinger bars, finely chopped
• GLAZE
• 2/3 c — Whipping Cream
• 7 tbsp — Unsalted Butter
• 1 tbsp — Light Corn Syrup
• 14 oz — Semisweet Chocolate, chopped
• 2 tsp — Dark rum
• 1 tsp — Vanilla Extract
• 1 1/4 c — Butterfinger bars, chopped

Instructions

1. Preheat to 350F.
2. Place waxed paper in the bottom of each pan and butter the pans. Butter and flour the paper.
3. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into medium bowl.
4. Beat butter in large bowl until fluffy.
5. Gradually add sugar and beat 2 minutes.
6. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
7. Add dark rum and vanilla extract.
8. Combine sour cream and baking soda in medium bowl.
9. Add mashed bananas to sour cream mixture and stir until well blended.
10. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture alternately with banana mixture.
11. Stir in chopped Butterfinger bars.
12. Divide batter between prepared pans.
13. Bake for approx 30 mins, and perform normal cake tests.
14. Remove and cool in the pans for 10 mins.
15. Loosen cake from sides with knife. Then turn out onto racks and cool.
16. For the glaze. Combine cream, butter and corn syrup in heavy medium saucepan.
17. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring until butter melts.
18. Remove from heat amd then add chocolate and stir until melted and smooth.
19. Stir in dark rum and vanilla extract.
20. Pour glaze into small bowl. Cover and refrigerate just until cool and thick, stirring occassionally, about 40 minutes.
21. Stir glaze until smooth. Spread 1 cup evenly over first layer then stack and finish glazing top and sides.
22. Cover top and sides with chopped Butterfinger bars.

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