Straightforward Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

By Lynne on August 19, 2022 » 11 Feedback

This simple recipe for Banana Cake has rapidly grow to be a household favourite right here at our home and I’m positive it will likely be at yours as properly! Moist, dense, (however not TOO dense!) filled with banana taste, it’s topped with an extremely simple and scrumptious cream cheese frosting. You would possibly simply fall in love with this good recipe even earlier than you’re taking the primary chew, and it’s one moist cake you’ll be making many times!

What to do with these brown bananas you ask?
It’s the age outdated query, I do know.

Make my go-to recipe, and THE finest banana cake recipe I’ve ever tasted, that’s what!
Critically, you received’t want one other recipe for a cake with overripe bananas once more.
My apologies to all my blogger associates who say theirs is the most effective. ?
Sorry, not sorry?

I actually assume that if you happen to have been to place a slice of moist banana cake or a slice of chocolate cake in entrance of me, the cake with the bananas would win.
Nevertheless, if I’m hormonal, that’s one other story. HA!

Ingredients for and the making of a cake.

What icing goes properly with this scrumptious banana cake?

Cream Cheese, palms down.
Whereas I’ve had banana cake with a chocolate frosting, and a salted caramel frosting, my private choice is to go along with a tangy cream cheese frosting.
I’m not gonna lie, chocolate and bananas are a REALLY scrumptious mixture.
As an example, you would possibly need to strive my Double Chocolate Banana Bread, these Chocolate Banana Muffins, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Banana Bread, Banana Chocolate Scones, or this Banana Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake.

BUT, with that being stated, there’s simply one thing a couple of cream cheese frosting.
It’s easy.
Not too candy, and it permits the banana cake take heart stage.
The cream cheese frosting walks away with my vote for the Greatest Supporting Frosting award each single time.

In addition to, it’s fairly killer on these right here cinnamon rolls.

What do I would like for this cake made with bananas?

This 9 X 9-inch baking panhttps://amzn.to/3PDT6xf
You need to use an 8 X 8-inch pan, it can simply take longer to bake.
BANANAS!!
milk
white vinegar or the identical quantity of lemon juice
Used to bitter the milk OR you possibly can substitute the milk and vinegar for a half cup of buttermilk.
sugar
eggs
vanilla extract
cake flour
Don’t have any readily available? No want to fret or run to the grocery retailer as a result of it’s tremendous simple to make at house!
Utilizing the cornstarch to make your home made cake flour will assist scale back the quantity of gluten within the all-purpose flour.
Sifting each the cornstarch and all-purpose flour collectively will aerate them enabling the dry components to stay higher with the moist components.
Non-obligatory – chocolate chips!
After the primary time you make this superb cake, add a couple of half cup of chips to the flour combination to coat them so that they received’t sink into the batter because it bakes.

Banana cake topped with cream cheese frosting and bananas.

Let’s make this Banana Cake!

Pour the milk right into a liquid measuring cup, and add the vinegar to it. Stir and let sit at room temperature for no less than at the very least 10 minutes. Then stir once more earlier than including to the cake batter when directed.
Preheat your oven to 350° F. Grease and calmly flour a 9 X 9-inch baking pan.
In a medium bowl, whisk collectively the dry components – cake flour, baking soda and salt.
Cream butter in a big bowl on medium pace with a hand mixer or electrical mixer. Steadily add the sugar. Combine till gentle, about two minutes.
Add the mashed bananas, eggs and vanilla to the butter combination and blend properly.
Pour within the dry components and blend till simply mixed.
With the mixer operating on low, add the milk and blend till blended, scraping down the perimeters of the bowl.
Pour the batter into the ready pan and bake for 45 minutes or till a toothpick or cake tester inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clear.
Cool cake in pan for five minutes earlier than turning out onto a wire rack to chill fully earlier than frosting.
To make the frosting, beat the cream cheese and butter in a mixing bowl till clean.
Combine within the vanilla and the salt after which add the powdered sugar, mixing till fully mixed and frosting is clean.
Frost that cake and luxuriate in!

Banana Cake recipe topped with cream cheese frosting and bananas.

Need extra scrumptious recipes with bananas?

We’ve obtained them for breakfast in pancakes, in a single day oats, smoothie bowls, and naturally breads.
Talking of which, if you happen to haven’t made my Brown Butter Rum Banana Bread but, you MUST. It’s killer!

Can’t overlook about dessert!
Bananas are the spotlight of those simple, no bake Banana Pudding Dream Bars, my Banana Cookie Butter Ice Cream, this Banana Cut up Ice Cream Cake, and this unbelievable Banana Tres Leches Cake.

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Theres’a one thing to be stated a couple of scrumptious home made banana cake. It’s a good way to make use of up these additional bananas with brown spots sitting in your counter. I believe this may grow to be considered one of your favourite recipes simply because it has mine.

This authentic recipe is from the Fannie Farmer Cookbook Thirteenth Version, pgs. 575 and 597; writer, Marion Cunningham; writer, Alfred A. Knopf, division of Random Home; ISBN 0-394-56788-9.

A slice of cake on a plate with bananas.

Created by: Lynne Feifer

Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Complete Time 1 hour 15 minutes

This Banana Cake recipe has rapidly grow to be a household favourite right here at our home and I am positive it will likely be at yours as properly! Moist, dense, (however not TOO dense!) filled with banana taste, it is topped with an extremely simple and scrumptious cream cheese frosting. You would possibly simply fall in love on the first chew, and it is one cake you will be making many times!

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Gear

mixing bowl
9 X 9-inch cake pan

Directions

Banana Cake

Pour the milk right into a liquid measuring cup and add the tablespoon of vinegar to bitter it. Stir, and let sit for no less than quarter-hour when you put together the cake.
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9 X 9-inch cake pan and calmly mud with flour or spray with a floured baking spray.
In a medium bowl, whisk collectively the flour, baking soda and salt.
Cream the butter in a mixing bowl, slowly including the sugar. Beat till gentle, about 2-3 minutes.
Add the mashed banana, eggs, and vanilla to the butter / sugar, and blend properly.
Add the dry components to the banana combination and mix.
Stir the milk, and with the mixer operating on low, slowly pour it into the bowl and mix. Be sure you scrape down the perimeters of the bowl.
Pour batter into the pan and bake for about 45 minutes, or till a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clear.
Cool the cake within the pan for about 5 minutes earlier than turning out onto a rack. Then permit the cake to chill fully earlier than frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream the butter and cream cheese in a mixing bowl till clean and creamy. You could have to scrape down the perimeters of the bowl a number of occasions
Combine within the vanilla and the salt.
Slowly add the powdered sugar and blend till totally mixed.

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This submit was first revealed 2/18/11. The submit has been up to date in format, and the frosting recipe has been modified on 5/11/21.

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