Description
Next time you find yourself with overripe bananas, try this Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting for something different than banana bread. A moist, flavorful banana cake is topped with cream cheese frosting for a dessert that is simple yet irresistible.
Ingredients
Banana Cake:
- 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 medium ripe bananas, mashed
Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
- 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature
- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Grease a 9×13-inch baking pan.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing in-between additions. Stir in the sour cream, then the vanilla extract.
In another bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and salt.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, then stir in the mashed bananas. Transfer the batter to the prepared baking pan.
Bake until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 25-30 minutes. Cool the cake completely before frosting.
To make the frosting: Beat the butter and the cream sugar together in a bowl until smooth. Slowly add the powdered sugar and mix until completely smooth. Frost the cake with the frosting.
Recipe Notes:
Adapted from allrecipes.com
When this recipe was originally published, it only used 1 cup of mashed banana and the frosting had a pound of powdered sugar. The recipe has been retested since and the updated recipe appears now.
Nutrition information provided as an estimate only. Various brands and products can change the counts. Any nutritional information should only be used as a general guideline.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 piece
- Calories: 401
- Sugar: 38 g
- Sodium: 267 mg
- Fat: 20 g
- Saturated Fat: 12 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 52 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 76 mg
Keywords: banana cake, cream cheese frosting