* Exported from MasterCook * BANANA BUTTER FROSTING - allrecipes
Recipe By : Serving Size : 11 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : !! 5 or Less Cakes - Frosting/Icing/Filling Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- 1/4 cup butter -- softened 1/2 cup mashed bananas 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar Cream together butter, banana, lemon juice and vanilla. Slowly beat in confectioners' sugar, adding more if needed to make a nice fluffy, spreadable icing. Makes about 2 1/3 cups. Servings Per Recipe: 11 Calories: 185 Total Fat: 4.3g * Cholesterol: 11mg * Sodium: 43mg * Total Carbs: 37.7g * Dietary Fiber: 0.2g * Protein: 0.2g Here's a foolproof order for adding these ingredients together in order to NOT get a glaze: Mash 1/2 of the greenest NEVER FROZEN banana you have, add 1/2 tsp. lemon juice (or lime juice, but there is no other substitute here, the citric acid is key) and your vanilla into a bowl. Measure out your confectioner's sugar or at least part of it. Cream butter alone (make sure your butter is NOT soft enough to hold an indentation - usually 30 minutes for me). Begin adding in sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, continue creaming it in, add ALL your banana mixture, cream that in, continue adding in sugar in 1/2 cup measures. I wound up adding more lemon juice, myself, to counteract the sugar. I've iced all 18 of AR's "Banana Cupcakes" with this & it's in the fridge -- I may revise this review if it's brown in the morning :=) Thanks for the recipe! (Note: I used 3 drops of yellow food coloring.) UPDATE: As of the following morning, my refrigerated iced cupcakes had NOT turned brown or discolored or wept in any way. Excellent!! At first I was extremely frustrated that is was very thin and almost a liquid. I left it in the bowl and let it sit in the fridge over night. The next day I had a PERFECT frosting!!! I make home made frosting all the time so I can say with great confidence that this is a great frosting if you let it sit over night. I doubled the recipe too. Oh so good! I made Banana Spice Cookies (from this website) and used them as banana whoopie pies with this as the filling! I didn't measure exactly how much powdered sugar I used, but I used way more than this recipe calls for. A keeper recipe for me! I had never even heard of banana icing before, but decided to do a search for a frosting to put on the chocolate banana muffins that I made. This frosting turned out better that I expected, both in appearance as well as taste. I should have made a double batch - one to frost the muffins, and one to eat with a spoon from the bowl. This frosting is delicious and would go so well on many cakes, muffins, and cupcakes. I will definitely keep this one handy. I made this recipe exactly and it is wonderful. Great banana flavor. I ran low because I made two batches of cupcakes and had no more bananas, I added some Banana Cream Pie flavored yogurt and more powdered sugar and that tasted great too. Will use this one again. Wonderful recipe. Great flavor, not overly sweet or banana-y. Added nutmeg, allspice and cinnamon. Will be saving this one!! This icing was amazing! I made two batches-- one of just banana and added some yellow colour to make it more fun. I also used green bananas which gave it a nice fresh taste! The second I blended in two fresh strawberries along with the bananas. Strawberry banana icing! YUM! made for top of banana cake V. very good, except wait to frosten until cake and icing have cooled. ended up with puddles around the edges and center, but it was a nice consistency the next day. After mixing all the ingredients the frosting was a bit gooey. I gave a splash of milk and mixed a lil longer, it fluffed right up. It now reminds me of a banana flavored coolwhip. Thanks! I thought this recipe was great. I followed it as written and it tasted wonderful. I paired it with the Banana Cake I from this site and it was delicious. I'd never put a banana in frosting before and I really enjoyed the flavor - so did all my guests. Easy and wonderful- my husband's new favorite! Attempted to make twice...the first time I followed the directions as written, mixing everything but the powdered sugar all at once...DON'T DO THIS! The banana puree and lemon juice will NOT cream with the butter properly. Instead, cream the butter on its own, then add the powdered sugar in small batches. Alternate adding sugar and banana puree until it's fluffy and creamy. It has a nice banana flavor and thick texture. his frosting made my Banana Oatmeal cookies out of this world. When I made the cookies (also from this site, recipe by Yvonne Miller) they seemed a bit on the dry side, but tasty, so I thought icing would perk them up a bit. I'm glad I did, they were fantastic, thanks to this icing! This icing was great. The first time I made it, I only had 1 banana which whats less than what the recipe called for. However, it was a great icing because it was very mousse like. It spread nicely and was VERY tastey. I sold the cake at a bazaar and I havent stopped hearing rave reviews about it. THANKS! YUM YUM YUM! On top of Wonderful Banana cake... just delicious! I did use newer bananas as one review suggested helped cut down the tooth-rottingly sweet factor! Really good! Had to add the extra powdered sugar for what I needed it for. Also added a bit of banana extract. Gave it just the right taste of banana! Will use this one again and again! Highly addictive! A banana that is slightly green on the tips and well mashed works best. I have found that using an overripe banana will make it too sweet and a lot softer. To prevent it from turning brown, don't forget to add the lemon juice. Thank you for sharing this recipe it is now my favorite frosting. This is the best frosting I've ever tasted in my entire life. The recipe is perfect as is and it only takes 5 minutes to make! Description: "By: Carol - Can be used on banana cake, white cake or peanut butter cake" Source: "http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/banana-butter-icing/Detail.aspx" S(Formatted for Mastercook): "by Deirdre Dee (zosha)" Yield: "2 1/3 cups" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 47 Calories; 4g Fat (78.4% calories from fat); trace Protein; 2g Carbohydrate; trace Dietary Fiber; 11mg Cholesterol; 43mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Fruit; 1 Fat. Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 You can't prevent Trouble from coming to visit, but you don't have to offer it a chair. Deirdre Dee (zosha) ------------------------------------ Yahoo! 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