Banana Cake with Praline Frosting

Ingredients

Banana Cake Batter

4 eggs - room temperature

2 sticks of butter (1 cup) room temperature

2 cups of light brown sugar

2 cups of all-purpose flower

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon of baking soda

4 ripe bananas

3/4 cup  of sour cream - room temperature

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 1/2 cups of walnuts sprinkled with flour

1 cup of dates sprinkled with flour

Pre-heat your oven at 350 Fahrenheit.

Mix butter and sugar, and add eggs one by one on medium speed with an electric mixer.  Add vanilla.

Add flour 1/2 cup of flour at a time and the sour cream and continue to mix until blended.

Add bananas and continue to mix.  Finally add walnuts and dates and mix on slow speed for 15 seconds.

Grease a bundt cake pan with butter.  Pour mix into pan.  Bake for 50 minutes.

Praline Frosting

1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
3 Tbsp. milk
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 cup powdered sugar

12 half pecans for decoration

Bring brown sugar, butter, and milk to a boil in a saucepan over medium heat, whisking constantly; boil 1 minute, whisking constantly. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla. Gradually whisk in powdered sugar until smooth; stir gently 3 to 5 minutes or until mixture begins to cool and thickens slightly. Pour immediately over cooled cake.  Decorate with half pecans.