Banana Layer Cake – Finish of the Fork

June 23, 2022

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Banana cake is everybody’s favorite! It’s fluffy, delicate and moist with a scrumptious banana flavour and lemon cream cheese frosting.

Banana cake on a cake stand, decorated with a slice of lemon and sprinkles. — Banana cake with yogurt

That is our favorite banana cake with cream cheese frosting and to date everybody who has tried it has stated it’s the greatest they’ve ever had!

What’s so particular about this banana cake? Nicely, it’s fluffy and lightweight with a delicate crumb however above all, like all good truffles made with recent fruit, it’s moist and you’ll actually style these bananas!

So all that, along with the scrumptious lemon cream cheese frosting, this banana cake is one you can be making time and again as it’s good for nearly each event.

This recipe makes a two layer banana cake with sufficient frosting for the layers, sides and prime, however you possibly can additionally simply as simply use it to make cupcakes (verify to see if they’re accomplished after 18 minutes).

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Image showing cake with a slice removed to show cake texture. — Banana cake texture

Useful suggestions

Use very ripe bananas, these with brown skins are greatest. Very ripe bananas have a extra intense banana flavour and are a lot sweeter, making them good for baked banana desserts .
Put together the cream cheese frosting earlier than making the cake. Cowl and preserve it within the fridge until prepared to make use of so it thickens barely.
Add ½ cup extra powdered sugar for a thicker frosting.
Stir the powdered sugar into the whipped butter so it doesn’t blow round throughout whipping.
You could possibly combine in a drop of meals colouring to the frosting, I used a drop of pure yellow meals colouring for the pictures above.

Your questions answered

How do you rapidly ripen bananas?

For those who wouldn’t have very ripe bananas, here’s a fast hack – place them within the freezer for some time (a few hours will do) in order that they darken, then take away them an hour earlier than utilizing to permit them to thaw.

What if I don’t have powdered sugar?

For those who don’t have powdered/icing sugar, you may make your personal. Merely mix your common cane sugar on high-speed for a number of minutes until it turns to powder. Retailer any further as you’ll common sugar.

Make it forward

You may actually make this cake forward of time and assemble it earlier than serving. After the truffles have cooled, wrap them tightly and chill for as much as 4 days, or freeze them for as much as 3 months, then thaw absolutely earlier than frosting.

Substitutions

In case you’ve run out of those components or favor to not use them, under are options for substitutions:

yogurt – beat in an identical quantity of ricotta cheese. I attempted this lately and it was scrumptious!
vanilla – use almond extract.

Variations

To make it nutty – combine a handful of crushed walnuts into the batter earlier than pouring into the cake tins to bake.

Storing leftovers

Banana cake with or with out the frosting, will preserve properly in a sealed container within the fridge for as much as 4 days or within the freezer for as much as 3 months. Thaw absolutely earlier than serving.

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Are you craving extra banana desserts? Take a look at my mini banana cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, banana muffins with streusel topping and greatest banana bread recipe.

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