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This cake lives up to it’s title. The bananas make it super moist. and delicious. One piece of cake is really rich. On food.com the recipe had over 1,000 reviews. I always consider the number of reviews a recipe has, because then you know it’s good! That is, if it has a lot of reviews…
To cut back on the fat I used half the amount of butter the recipe called for and replaced the other half with apple sauce. I’m wondering what it would be like if a person got rid of the butter completely and just used apple sauce instead? I also used 1% milk in place of butter milk and added a touch of lemon juice to the milk, since I didn’t have any buttermilk at the time.
Servings: 16
Recipe from Food.com
Best Ever Banana Cake
Print recipeIngredients
- 1 1/2 cups bananas
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 3 cups flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup butter
- 2 1/8 cups sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 1/2 cups butter
- 1 8oz package cream cheese
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
Directions
| Step 1 | |
| Preheat oven to 275°. | |
| Step 2 | |
| Grease and flour a 9 x 13 pan. | |
| Step 3 | |
| In a small bowl, mix mashed banana with the lemon juice; set aside. | |
| Step 4 | |
| In a small bowl, mix mashed banana with the lemon juice; set aside. | |
| Step 5 | |
| In a large bowl, cream 3/4 cup butter and 2 1/8 cups sugar until light and fluffy. | |
| Step 6 | |
| Beat in eggs, one at a time, then stir in 2 tsp vanilla. | |
| Step 7 | |
| Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk. | |
| Step 8 | |
| Stir in banana mixture. | |
| Step 9 | |
| Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for one hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. | |
| Step 10 | |
| For the frosting, cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth. | |
| Step 11 | |
| Beat in 1 teaspoon vanilla. | |
| Step 12 | |
| Add icing sugar and beat on low speed until combined, then on high speed until frosting is smooth | |
| Step 13 | |
| Beat in 1 teaspoon vanilla. | |
| Step 14 | |
| Add icing sugar and beat on low speed until combined, then on high speed until frosting is smooth. | |
| Step 15 | |
| Spread on cooled cake. | |
| Step 16 | |
| Sprinkle chopped walnuts over top of the frosting, if desired. | |
