Do you guys ever watch Trisha Yearwood on Food Network? I’ve made quite a few of her recipes. Her Chicken Tortilla Soup, Chicken Tortilla Casserole, and Miss Mickey’s Peanut Butter Balls, all have been super good and very popular on this site. They kind of over play her episodes on Food Network a lot and I’m glad she finally has a new season out with all new recipes.
This banana cake doesn’t have any type of flour in at all. Unless you count the flour from the vanilla wafers. Instead of flour, this recipe calls for ground up vanilla wafers. You pulverize them to death until the vanilla wafers look like flour. If you haven’t tried this method yet, you must! The cake doesn’t have any type of baking powder in it. It’s a very flat cake with layers of vanilla pudding. SO GOOD. I could eat just the cake part of this and not even have any frosting on it at all. Those vanilla wafers just make this cake extra special. I doubled the vanilla pudding so there would be some of that on the top of the cake. She just put the pudding in the middle.
Banana Pudding Cake – Trisha Yearwood
- Total Time: 45 min
- Yield: 8 1x
Ingredients
- All-purpose flour, for dusting the pans
- 3 ripe bananas
- 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- One 11-ounce box vanilla wafers, crushed
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Filling:
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- Pinch salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Confectioners’ sugar, for sprinkling
Instructions
- For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray two 9-inch round cake pans with nonstick cooking spray and lightly dust with flour. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, mash the bananas and then stir in the lemon juice. Set aside. Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and granulated sugar until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Add the vanilla wafers in 3 additions and the buttermilk in 2 additions, beginning and ending with the wafers. Beat until combined, then add the mashed bananas and vanilla and beat until fully incorporated.
- Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before turning out onto racks to cool completely.
- For the filling: Separate the yolk from the white of 1 of the eggs. Discard the white. In a saucepan, whisk together the granulated sugar, flour, cornstarch and salt until completely combined. Stir in the egg yolk and remaining whole egg, and then stir in the milk. Cook uncovered over medium heat, stirring often, until the pudding thickens, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla. Cover the pudding with plastic wrap, laying the wrap directly on the surface so a skin doesn’t form. Chill in the fridge until completely cooled, about 30 minutes.
- Spread the pudding between the cake layers. Chill the cake until the pudding filling is set, 30 minutes to 1 hour. Sprinkle the top of the cake with confectioners’ sugar just before serving.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Trisha Yearwood
- Category: Intermediate
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: banana pudding cake
Kathy says
I’m going to make this today but I don’t have 9 inch cake pans. I’m thinking of trying to do it in a bundt pan then slice in half after cooled. Any opinions
Dene says
But this isn’t the picture I’m seeing is it!? I see the filling on the top layer too instead of a dusting of powdered sugar..
Sherrie says
You said you doubled the vanilla pudding. Is the pudding already doubled in the recipe, or do we double it ouselves?
Kelly says
I made the Banana Cake for my Dad’s birthday and it was amazing ! The flavor was fantastic and it was SUPER moist! Bi always bake my cakes a day ahead and I added a little whipped cream and sliced bananas to the top just before serving. Wonderful cake! Is being added to my rotation for sure!