Père Roux's Cake

Ingredients

CAKE

  1. 2 3/4cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
  2. 1tablespoon baking powder
  3. 1/2teaspoon salt
  4. 1cup solid vegetable shortening (6 ounces)
  5. 2 1/4cups sugar
  6. 1 1/2cups skim milk
  7. 7large egg whites, at room temperature
  8. 1teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  9. 1/2teaspoon pure almond extract

FILLING

  1. 2sticks unsalted butter
  2. 1 3/4cups lightly packed light brown sugar
  3. 1/2teaspoon cinnamon
  4. 6overripe bananas, coarsely mashed
  5. 1/2cup plus 2 tablespoons Meyers’s dark rum

FROSTING

  1. 2sticks unsalted butter, softened
  2. 1 1/2cups confectioners’ sugar
  3. 1 1/2teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  4. 1/4teaspoon pure almond extract
  5. 1/4pound cream cheese, softened

Description

4.5

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