Banana Cake

This is the Best Banana Cake recipe EVER! It’s moist and sweet and topped with a tangy cream cheese frosting!

The Best Banana Cake Recipe

If you love bananas or Banana Bread, you’re going to love this classic recipe!

This really is the BEST Banana Cake ever. I have been making this cake for several years now and everyone loves it and always asks me for the recipe.

I had some ripe bananas on the counter and rather than making Banana Muffins again I decided a cake sounded better. Cake almost always sounds better! When life gives you ripe bananas…make banana cake. Then, frost it with a cream cheese frosting. SO GOOD!!

Ingredients For Banana Cake

Ripe Bananas
Lemon Juice
All-Purpose Flour
Baking Soda
Kosher Salt
Unsalted Butter
Granulated Sugar
Large Eggs
Vanilla Extract
Buttermilk
Unsalted Butter
Whipped Cream Cheese
Heavy Cream
Powdered Sugar

How To Make Banana Cake

1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees F and grease and flour a 9×13-inch metal cake pan.
2. In a small bowl, mash the bananas with a fork and then pour lemon juice on top; set aside.
3. In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
4. In a large bowl, cream 3/4 cup butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy.
5. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in 2 teaspoons of vanilla.
6. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk.
7. Stir in banana mixture.
8. Pour the batter into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for one hour or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
9. Remove from the oven and place directly into the freezer for 45 minutes.

The Best banana cake! It’s the only recipe I use. I fell in love with this cake years ago and have been using the same recipe since. My daughter in law requested it for her wedding cake and her birthdays !

– Teresa

How To Make Cream Cheese Frosting

1. Cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth.
2. Beat in vanilla extract.
3. Add powdered sugar and heavy cream and beat on low speed until combined, then on high speed until frosting is smooth.
4. Make sure you allow the cake to cool completely before frosting.

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• Classic Bananas Foster – A delicious classic!
• Dirty Banana Cocktail – Basically a boozy milkshake!
• Banana Bread with Browned Butter – Meet your new favorite banana bread!

This recipe was originally published in February 2015 and was updated in September 2019.