Crazy Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
If you’re looking for the best banana cake ever, this is your cake. Slathered with a thick layer of cream cheese icing, it’s moist and delicious every time. It’s a great way to use up frozen or over-ripe bananas and quite simply, it’s the only banana cake recipe you’ll ever need.
Crazy Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
1 hr 10 mins
Cooling time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 20 mins
One bite of this super- moist crazy banana cake with cream cheese icing will have them begging for more. The way you bake and cool it is kind of crazy, but that’s the secret to this cake’s success.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: cake
Keyword: Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
Servings: 20
Calories: 405 kcal
Ingredients
For the Cake
1.5 cups very ripe bananas 3 fresh bananas or 4 thawed, previously frozen bananas
2 tsp lemon juice
3 cups all-purpose flour
1.5 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup soft butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1.5 cups buttermilk OR milk soured with one tbsp vinegar or lemon juice
For the Frosting
1/2 cup softened butter
8 oz cream cheese room temp.
1 tsp vanilla
3.5 cups icing sugar also known as powdered sugar or confectioner's sugar
Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 275 F, and grease and flour (or spray), a 9x13 cake pan.
Mash banana and mix with lemon juice and set aside.
In a med bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
If you're making your own buttermilk, combine milk and vinegar (or lemon juice) in a small bowl, and set aside.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar.
Beat in eggs, one at a time. Stir in vanilla.
Beat in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk.
Stir in bananas.
Pour into cake pan and bake 1 hour and 10 mins (or until knife comes out clean). *if need be, cook longer, checking every 10 minutes until cake is fully cooked.
Immediately place in freezer for 45 minutes. (if not completely cool upon removal from freezer, let cool further before icing).
Cream butter and cream cheese.
Beat in vanilla and icing sugar on low until combined, then high until smooth.
Frost cake and enjoy!