FOR THE CAKE
Preheat oven to 325° F. (When you haven’t calibrated your oven just lately, I like to recommend you calibrate your oven yearly. For information learn: Easy methods to Calibrate your Oven.)
Coat a 10-inch, 12-cup tube pan or bundt pan with strong vegetable shortening and sugar or Wilton cake launch spray.
Within the bowl of your electrical mixer, beat the heavy whipping cream till stiff peak stage. Spoon it into one other bowl and put aside to *add to the combination later.
In the identical bowl of an electrical mixer (bowl 1 electrical mixer), beat butter and cream cheese till fluffy. Add granulated sugar and beat on medium pace till the combination is fluffy. Cease the mixer and scrape the perimeters. Combine once more.
Take away 2 tablespoons of the moment pudding combine and reserve it for the glaze. Mix the remaining prompt pudding, flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in one other bowl (bowl 2). Whisk to mix. Put aside.
In yet one more bowl (bowl 3) crack your eggs and add the banana extract and mashed bananas. Slowly combine this into your butter and cream cheese combination. (bowl 1)
Now, slowly add the flour combination (bowl 2) to the butter/cream cheese combination (bowl 1).
Cease the mixer, scrape the perimeters, and blend once more.
By hand with a big spatula, *fold within the whipped cream. (That is the whipped cream that’s the very very first thing that you simply combined.) This makes plenty of batter. Take your time and thoroughly fold till the whipped cream is combined properly.
Spoon into your ready pan and clean the highest.
Bake for 1 hour 30 to 45 minutes at 325°F. Don’t open the door for the primary hour that it cooks. Take a look at with a wood decide the cake is completed with no crumbs or dry crumbs remaining on the decide when inserted into the middle of the cake. (As properly, you possibly can take a look at with a thermometer, the inner temperature of the cake might be 200°F when absolutely cooked.)
Enable cake to chill on a wire rack for half-hour earlier than inverting on a tray to chill fully. Wait till the cake is totally cool earlier than frosting or glazing.
FOR THE GLAZE
Combine the ½ cup heavy cream, ¾ cup powdered sugar, 2 Tablespoons Amaretto, and the two tablespoons of the moment pudding combine that you simply reserved. Whisk till the sugar is dissolved and the combination is clean. You’ll be able to add extra cream if wanted.
Spoon over your cooled cake enable the glaze to drip down the perimeters.
For this cake, I like to recommend ready till you’re able to serve earlier than garnishing it. Garnish with crushed vanilla wafers, banana slices, and mint.
I like to recommend eradicating banana slices from the highest earlier than storing in the event you adorned the cake with them. Retailer in an hermetic cake taker within the fridge. It’s going to maintain within the fridge for five to 7 days. See notes above for freezing.
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