Best Banana Cake Recipe
This is the banana cake recipe ever! It's easy to make (no mixer required), moist, loaded with bananas and topped with a delicious cream cheese frosting.
Servings: 16 servings
Cost: $7
Ingredients
- 3 bananas (mashed, about 1 ½ cups)
- ½ cup salted butter (melted)
- 1 ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs (room temperature)
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 ¼ cup whole milk (room temperature)
- ¼ cup sour cream (room temperature)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 4 ounces cream cheese (room temperature)
- ½ cup salted butter (softened)
- 2 ½ cups powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
Make the Banana Cake
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (177 degrees Celsius).
- Grease a 9x13” pan, set aside.
- In a medium bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, sea salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mash bananas.
- Add melted butter, sugar and vanilla and stir to combine.
- Add eggs, sour cream and milk and stir or whisk to combine.
- Add dry ingredients and stir until the mixture is homogenous (uniform throughout) and there are no lumps.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake in preheated oven for 35-45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool to room temperature.
Make the Cream Cheese Frosting
- While the cake is baking, make the cream cheese frosting.
- Beat together butter and cream cheese until smooth.
- Add vanilla and 2 cups of powdered sugar and beat (starting on low speed and increasing to medium-high) until smooth.
- Add up to ½ cup more powdered sugar until you reach a spreadable, but thick consistency.
Assemble, Chill & Serve
- When the cake is cooled, spread frosting evenly over the top.
- Chill for at least 3 hours, or overnight. Then serve cold or at room temperature.
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Notes
Banana Cake: Ingredient Substitutions
- All-purpose flour. cake flour or all-purpose gluten-free flour work well.
- Salted butter. Unsalted butter. You can also substitute up to half of the butter with canola oil or applesauce.
- Granulated sugar. You can replace up to ½ cup of the white sugar with brown sugar. Organic cane sugar works well too.
- Sour Cream. Greek yogurt can be used in place of sour cream .
- Whole Milk. 2% milk can be used in place of whole milk, but I would avoid skim and fat-free milk, because the fat is necessary for the best texture.
- NOTE: you can substitute both the sour cream and whole milk with 1 1/2 cups of buttermilk.
Nutrition
Serving: 1piece | Calories: 357kcal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 63mg | Sodium: 266mg | Potassium: 144mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 36g | Vitamin A: 547IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 42mg | Iron: 1mg