Our Best Banana Cake Recipe

Move over banana bread! Enjoy our BEST Banana Cake recipe for a exceptional occasion, or whenever y'all bring ripe in addition to ready bananas.

Our banana cake recipe is a favorite amongst everyone who tries it! With plenty of banana flavour in addition to a rich, luscious cream cheese frosting it’s difficult to halt at merely i piece. This banana cake recipe tin last made inwards layers or a 13×9-inch baking pan making it perfect for gatherings, potlucks or slow decorating.

 

What sort of add-ins are best amongst this banana cake recipe?

For a dainty flavour companion to the bananas, add-in your favorite solid put down or chopped nuts. If mixing nuts into the cake batter I recommend using merely i loving cup of finely chopped walnuts or pecans. I’m partial to toasted, chopped walnuts sprinkled on hand for dainty visual appeal, adept compaction in addition to bully flavor. Another bully variation is to add together a niggling cinnamon to the cake batter and/or the frosting.  Let’s non forget the delicious chocolate in addition to banana combo too! Garnish the cake amongst mini semisweet chocolate chips around the exterior border of the hand layer – hence pretty! The mini chips add together merely plenty chocolate to compliment the banana flavour without also much sweetness.

 

 

This banana cake recipe is easily made ahead in addition to refrigerated until needed.

The texture of this banana cake recipe is to a greater extent than similar a typical cake than banana bread. It’s soft in addition to moist but merely a impact to a greater extent than dense than a cake made without four smashed bananas. This cake doesn’t wimp out on banana flavour either. No i volition bring to wonder what happened to the bananas because it has a deliciously intense-banana flavour throughout. You tin fifty-fifty scent sweetness bananas when y'all piece into this cake! And, nosotros dearest how it slices beautifully in addition to is best eaten later on it’s had fourth dimension to residual in addition to chill for a few hours. The frosting requires refrigeration for longer storage making this cake a perfect make-ahead dessert. Our cake is delicious eaten similar a shot from the fridge or at room temperature, it’s all good!

 

What’s the best means to ripen bananas?

If y'all conception to brand this cake I recommend buying bananas a calendar week earlier y'all demand them in addition to allow them ripen at room temperature naturally. To last certain your bananas are throughly ripe for this cake. The banana cutis should last generally dark-brown on the exterior amongst a soft fruit within when gently squeezed. If you’re a niggling rushed (like I unremarkably am) here’s our favorite means to ripen bananas for baking:

According to Cook’s Illustrated, the best means to ripen bananas is to enclose them inwards a newspaper purse for a few days. The purse volition trap the ethylene gas produced yesteryear fruit that hastens ripening, piece however allowing some wet to escape. Since fully ripe fruit emits the most ethylene, placing a ripe banana or other ripe fruit inwards the purse volition speed the procedure along yesteryear a 24-hour interval or two.

 

With a beautiful texture, intense banana flavour in addition to a rich, sweetness frosting, this banana cake recipe volition larn i of your most requested desserts!

 

 

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Banana Cake Recipe

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

30 mins

 

Course:

Dessert

Servings: 10

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

For the cake:

• 
  3
  cups
  all-purpose flour
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  baking soda
  


• 
  3/4
  cup
  unsalted butter,
  room temperature
  


• 
  1 1/2
  cups
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  3
  large eggs,
  separated
  


• 
  1 1/2
  cup
  mashed ripe bananas
  (about four medium)
  


• 
  1 1/2
  teaspoons
  vanilla extract
  


• 
  1
  cup
  whole milk
  

For the frosting:

• 
  8
  ounces
  cream cheese,
  room temperature
  


• 
  8
  tablespoons
  unsalted butter,
  room temperature
  


• 
  6
  cups
  powdered sugar
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  vanilla
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  chopped toasted walnuts or mini semisweet chocolate chips for garnish
  (optional)
  

Instructions

1. 
   

   Preheat oven to 350F. Grease in addition to flour 2 9-inch cake pans or a 13x9-inch baking pan.

   
   

To laid upward the cake:

1. 
   

   In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, common salt in addition to baking soda. Set aside.

   
   


2. 
   
   In a large mixing bowl shell the butter in addition to saccharide on medium-high speed until pale in addition to fluffy. Add the egg yolks, i at a time, in addition to blend until combined. Add the mashed bananas in addition to vanilla; shell until incorporated scraping downward the sides in addition to bottom of the bowl equally needed.
   
   


3. 
   
   Reduce the speed to depression in addition to add together the flour mixture inwards three additions alternating amongst the milk inwards 2 additions.
   
   


4. 
   
   In a split bowl bowl shell the egg whites amongst construct clean beaters until soft peaks form. Gently crimp the egg whites into the cake batter using a spatula. Divide the batter betwixt the 2 prepared pans.
   
   


5. 
   

   Bake at 350F until a toothpick comes out amongst no wet batter (moist crumbs are okay), well-nigh 28 to 33 minutes, DO NOT OVER-BAKE! Allow the cake to cool on a rack for xv minutes. Remove the cakes from the pans in addition to cool completely on a wire rack earlier frosting.

   
   

To laid upward the frosting:

1. 
   
   Combine the cream cheese in addition to butter in addition to shell until blended. Add the saccharide in addition to shell until fluffy. And the vanilla in addition to common salt in addition to mix on depression until smoothen in addition to creamy. Frost cake equally desired. Cake is best stored inwards a cool place or refrigerated in addition to volition operate on good for upward to five days.
   
   

Recipe Notes

To vary this recipe add together 1 teaspoon cinnamon to the dry out ingredients or to the frosting. Mini semisweet chocolate chips are a pretty garnish equally good equally toasted chopped nuts.

 

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Thanks hence much for stopping by!  Tricia

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