Homemade Banana Cake
on Jun 23, 2019, Updated Jan 02, 2024
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This Homemade Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is so incredibly moist and delicious. It’s so easy to make from scratch with overripe bananas. Everyone will find it to be a tasty dessert.
Homemade Banana Cake
I am a fan of banana recipes. I make our Easy Banana Cream Pie so often. When I have overripe bananas I will make an Easy Banana Bread or a CopyCat Starbucks Banana Nut Bread. But, most of the time, this Homemade Banana Cake because it is a family favorite.
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I keep bananas on my countertop because my family eats them more than any other fruit I can offer them. Sometimes they get eaten right away but I frequently overbuy. If you are like me and hate to see overripe bananas being tossed in the trash, I encourage you to make this Homemade Banana Cake.
This Banana Cake is moist and fluffy each and every time I make it. Most everyone that gives it a try, asks for the recipe. Cakes are great for feeding a crowd and most of our guests will indulge in a pice or two. It’s so easy to make a cake in a 9X13 pan and then cut into snack-sized pieces to serve a large party.
For this Banana Cake recipe, I like to top it with my favorite cream cheese frosting. It’s the same that I use for my Homemade Pumpkin Cake. From scratch, frosting is always better than store bought. If you are pressed for time, feel free to use store bought, it will still be an amazing cake. If you would prefer a buttercream frosting, I think it would be super tasty too!
Ingredients needed to make Homemade Banana Cake
- overripe bananas
- eggs
- milk
- flour
- sugar
- brown sugar
- baking soda
- cinnamon
- vanilla
- powdered sugar
- butter
How to make Banana Cake
First, go ahead set your oven to 350 degrees. Then, heavily grease and flour a 9X13 cake pan. I keep shortening on hand for coating my cake pans. It always keeps my homemade cakes from sticking.
In a small bowl, you will want to use a fork to mash your banana. Then set it aside when making the rest of the cake.
In a medium bowl, add the flour, baking soda, and cinnamon. Next, you will give it a good whisk so all the dry ingredients are combined well. Then set this bowl aside too!
For this step, you need to combine the milk and the lemon juice. Then set it aside until needed further along in the recipe.
In a very large bowl, it’s now time to combine the sugars, eggs, and butter. I beat this really well until it is light and fluffy.
A stand mixer or hand mixer will work for this step.
Next, alternate between adding the flour and then milk, mixing with a spatula.
We are not wanting the mixture to get overbeaten. If overbeating your cake will not bake as evenly.
For this step, fold in the overripe banana that was previously smashed with the fork. If I happen to have chopped walnuts in my pantry, I will add them during this step. Walnuts or even raisins are a great addition but definitely not needed.
Last, we add our mix to our prepared pan. Then, on into the oven, it goes for about 50-55 minutes. The baking time may vary from each oven. Remove the cake from the oven when a toothpick is inserted into the center comes out clean.
After the cake has cooled a bit, I put it into the refrigerator for approximately 30 mins or so before adding my frosting.
If you are looking for other banana recipes, be sure to see these others that I have shared:
- Bananas Foster French Toast Casserole -a breakfast dish that is great for brunches and holiday breakfasts!
- Easy Banana Pudding – a classic recipe made simply.
- The Best Fried Bananas – a fun and tasty dessert.
Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
Cake
- 3/4 cup Butter, softened
- 3 medium overripe Bananas
- 1 1/2 cup Milk
- 2 tsp Lemon Juice
- 1 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 3 cup Flour
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
Frosting
- 8 oz Cream Cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup Butter, softened
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 6 cup Powdered Sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Grease and flour a 9x13" baking pan. Set aside.
- Mash 3 medium bananas in a small bowl. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Set aside.
- Combine milk and lemon juice. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine butter, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla and eggs. Beat until fluffy.
- Alternately add in portions of milk mixture and flour mixture, stirring each to combine.
- Fold in mashed bananas.
- Transfer batter to prepared pan.
- Bake 50-55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for 15 minutes then place in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before frosting.
- Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla until well blended.
- Slowly beat in powdered sugar.
- Spread frosting over cake and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Nutrition
This cake is definitely moist! I must disclose that I used 2 sticks of butter (1 cup) because the butter amount was initially omitted from the original post. It was divine. I gave this 4 stars because the icing was too much and tooooo sweet. Almost 3/4 of an inch of icing. I will adjust the icing next time to make this a 5 star recipe! Thank you for sharing. And it fed a LOT of neighbors!!
How much butter? It’s not listed with the other ingredients.
Hi Rick! So sorry about that. My hubby is updating the recipe with the butter right now:)
🥳🎂Happy Birthday!! 🎂🥳
My Birthday is June 23rd too!!