Double Chocolate Bananas Foster Cake

This recipe is bananas! It serves 10, but it’s so good you might not share at all.

Preheat oven to 325°F and grease three nine-inch round pans.
Cream shortening and 1/2 cup butter. Gradually add brown sugar, mixing at medium speed. Add eggs, one at a time, followed by syrup, bananas and chocolate.
Mix together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Gradually add to batter, alternating with buttermilk and vanilla. Stir in chocolate chips.
Pour into pans and bake about 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Transfer cakes to wire racks and let cool completely.
For the filling, whip cream and slowly add the powdered sugar. Refrigerate until cake is ready to frost.
For the frosting, cream butter, then beat in the marshmallow cream and powdered sugar. Beat on high three minutes or until spreading consistency. Add rum and blend.
Place one cake layer on cake plate. Top with whipped cream. Thinly slice one banana on top of cream. Add second later and repeat with whipped cream and second banana. Place third layer on top.
Gently spread frosting over entire cake and refrigerate until ready to serve.

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