Double Banana Upside-Down Cake

• 1
  

  cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
  

• 1
  

  tablespoon unsalted butter, room temperature
  

• 2
  

  massive ripe bananas, sliced
  

• 1 ¹⁄₂
  

  cups cake flour
  

• ³⁄₄
  

  teaspoon baking soda
  

• ³⁄₄
  

  teaspoon baking powder
  

• ¹⁄₂
  

  teaspoon salt
  

• 1
  

  cup mashed banana (about 2)
  

• 2
  

  eggs
  

• ¹⁄₂
  

  cup buttermilk
  

• 1
  

  teaspoon vanilla extract
  

• 1 ¹⁄₄
  

  cups sugar
  

• ¹⁄₃
  

  cup shortening
  

instructions

• Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
• With electric mixer, cream brown sugar and butter. Spread mixture over bottom of a 9 scuttle square baking dish with 2 scuttle excessive facets. Prepare sliced bananas on high of mixture, conserving fully. Location aside.
• Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a minute bowl.
• Mix mashed bananas, buttermilk and vanilla in yet any other minute bowl.
• The utilization of an electric mixer, cream 1 1/4 cups sugar and shortening until fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating properly after every adition. Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk mixture, mixing until simply combined.
• Pour batter over bananas in pan. Bake until cake pulls some distance off from facets of pan and a purchase inserted into the heart of cake comes out super, about 1 hour and 5 minutes. Frigid a minute bit.
• Flip cake onto serving plate.