Dessert: Banana Nut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

This banana nut cake is a sweet and delicious dessert that will impress anyone!

This recipe includes superfoods such as:

Cinnamon

Health benefits of Banana Nut Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060).

Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pans
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 eggs, beaten
3/4 cup vegetable oil
4 large ripe bananas, mashed
1 cup chopped pecans, plus 1/2 cup for frosting
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract, plus 1 teaspoon for frosting
1 (8 oz) package cream cheese, at room temperature
1 cup butter, at room temperature, plus more for greasing pan
1 lb confectioner's sugar, sifted

Instructions

Butter and flour 3 (9-inch) round cake pans; set aside. Preheat oven to 350 °.
In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Add the eggs and oil and stir just until the dry ingredients are moistened; do not beat. Stir in the banana, 1 cup pecans and 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Divide the batter among the prepared pans and bake for 23 to 28 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool the cake layers in the pans for 10 minutes, and then turn them out onto a rack to cool completely. While the cake cools, make the frosting.