Categories: Cakes, Desserts 
      Yield: 1 cake 
  
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      1 c  Honey 
      1 ts Soda 
      1 c  Quaker Oats, uncooked 
           -- (quick or old-fashioned) 
    3/4 c  Butter or margarine; soft 
    1/2 c  Sugar 
      2    Eggs 
      1 c  Mashed bananas 
  1 1/2 c  Sifted all-purpose flour 
    3/4 ts Baking powder 
    3/4 ts Salt 
 
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      6 oz Cream cheese; soft 
  2 1/2 c  Sifted confectioners' sugar 
  
  For cake, bring honey to a boil in medium-sized saucepan; add 1/2 teaspoon 
  of the soda.  Pour over oats; stir to combine.  Cover and let stand 10 
  minutes. 
   
  Beat butter until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy. 
  Blend in eggs.  Add oats mixture and bananas; blend well.  Sift together 
  flour, remaining 1/2 teaspoon soda, baking powder and salt.  Add to 
  creamed mixture; blend well. 
   
  Pour batter into 2 greased and waxed paper-lined 8-inch round cake pans. 
  Bake in preheated moderate oven (350 F.) 30 to 35 minutes.  Cool on wire 
  rack about 10 minutes.  Remove from pans; cool. 
   
  For frosting, beat cream cheese until fluffy.  Gradually add sugar, 
  beating until frosting is smooth and of spreading consistency.  Spread 
  between layers and over top of cake; refrigerate.  Just before serving, 
  decorate with banana slices.  Makes one 2-layer cake. 
   
  Source: Our Favorites for family and friends 
  Reprinted with permission from The Quaker Oats Company 
  Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias