The Best Homemade Banana Cake
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Homemade Banana Cake– a delicious, moist and flavorful cake filled with banana flavor and topped with a delicious cream cheese frosting! This banana cake recipe has been used for birthday parties, holidays and even weddings!
The Best Homemade Banana Cake
We often tease my Mom about being the “Betty Crocker” of the family, she has a love of baking and cooking for her family and everything she makes is delicious. I’m glad that I have been able to learn from her and bring some of my favorite home cooked meals and desserts into my own household. This cake recipe is truly the BEST homemade banana cake. This homemade banana cake has been used for birthday parties, holidays and has even been requested for our friends and family’s weddings.
Cream Cheese Frosting
We typically layer out banana cake with a delicious cream cheese frosting but any type of frosting will work. A milk chocolate frosting would be delicious! Our cream cheese frosting comes together with just 4 simple and delicious ingredients such as butter, cream cheese, vanilla and powdered sugar to sweeten it all up.
This homemade banana cake is moist, flavorful and relatively “light” in texture. It’s a perfect way to use extra browning bananas that we always seem to have on our counter.
Ways to Bake Banana Cake
You can bake this recipe in either (2) 9-inch round cake pans or (1) 9×13 inch baking pan. For weddings and fancier events we like to bake them in the round cake pans and stack them but for birthday parties and just because days, the baking pan works great! The frosting recipe included is enough for a 9 x 13 inch baking pan.
For more banana recipes try these:
Homemade Banana Cake
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup shortening, such as Crisco baking sticks
- 1 cup mashed bananas
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 pkg cream cheese, 8 ounces softened
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 cups powdered sugar, more if needed
Instructions
Banana Cake
- Grease and lightly flour two round pans or a 13x9 cake pan.
- Cream shortening, banana, sugar, and eggs together until light and fluffy. Add milk and vanilla.
- Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and add to wet mixture. Beat for 2 minutes on medium.
- Turn batter into pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until done. Allow to cool before frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- Beat together butter and cream cheese with electric mixer until smooth and creamy.
- Beat in Vanilla and powdered sugar until desired consistency is met. You may add a touch of milk if frosting gets too thick.
Can I replace the shortening with unsalted butter in the cake recipe? Thanks
The cream cheese frosting made it so special. I’ve never tried making banana cake with frosting before, I followed this recipe and it was so delicious!
This is seriously the best dessert! We’re obsessed! Thanks so much for sharing!
I would love a slice of this cake!! Looks and sounds amazing!