{"id":1454,"date":"2026-02-15T18:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:28","slug":"banana-cake-with-peanut-butter-icing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/banana-cake-with-peanut-butter-icing\/","title":{"rendered":"Banana Cake With Peanut Butter Icing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>2 1\/4 C. all-purpose flour<br \/>\n1 1\/4 tsp. baking powder<br \/>\n1 tsp. baking soda<br \/>\n1 tsp. salt<br \/>\n1 C. mashed bananas; very ripe about 2 large bananas<br \/>\n1 C. buttermilk; room temperature<br \/>\n2\/3 C. shortening<br \/>\n1 1\/2 C. sugar<br \/>\n2 large eggs; room temperature<br \/>\n1 tsp. vanilla extract<br \/>\nIcing<br \/>\n8 ounces cream cheese; softened<br \/>\n1\/2 C. light corn syrup<br \/>\n1\/2 C. creamy peanut butter<br \/>\n1 C. unsalted peanuts; chopped<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; set aside. In  another bowl, combine bananas and buttermilk; set aside. Cream together the shortening  and sugar in a large bowl, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating  well after each addition. Beat in vanilla extract. Alternately add flour mixture and banana  mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Beat until well blended. Spread evenly in  greased and flour 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 30-35  minutes until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake completely in  pan on wire rack. To make icing: Mix together the cream cheese and corn syrup until  smooth. Add peanut butter; beat until well-blended. Spread on cooled cake. Garnish with  chopped peanuts. Refrigerate cake until serving time.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&quot;I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able,&quot; (1Corinthians 3:2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cake<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/banana-cake-with-peanut-butter-icing\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}