This Homemade Old Fashioned Banana Cake Recipe is the most flavorful moist cake that is topped with an easy cream cheese frosting. The perfect way to use up overripe bananas!
This banana cake is a delicious twist on banana bread! Moist Banana Cake is perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
If you love easy, homemade desserts, this Banana Cake is right up there with my Oreo Dessert, Banana Bread, 7Up Bundt Cake Recipe!
Old-Fashioned Banana Cake Recipe
I love a good box cake mix recipe, but this Banana Cake is made from scratch with ingredients you most likely already have in your pantry.
It’s loaded with bananas and is soft, moist, and has the perfect flavor!
Covered with my winning cream cheese frosting, it’s an easy and wonderful old fashioned cake that will have everyone asking for seconds! (my even kids did!)
Banana Cake Ingredients
- very ripe bananas
- sugar – white and brown
- vegetable oil
- eggs
- sour cream
- vanilla
- flour
- baking soda
- salt
- vanilla extract
How To Make Banana Cake
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan.
- Start by adding the bananas to the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mash the bananas with a fork.
- Next, add in the granulated sugar, and brown sugar and mix on low speed until combined.
- With the mixer still on low, add the oil, eggs, sour cream, and vanilla. Mix until smooth.
- In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
- With the mixer on low, add the dry ingredients to the banana mixture and mix just until combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 45 to 50 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Then turn out onto a cooling rack, and cool completely.
- Spread the frosting thickly on the top of the cake and decorate with walnut halves.
This is truly the Best Banana Cake Recipe ever! It’s soft, sweet with the perfect amount of banana and it’s topped with my favorite cream cheese frosting that is to die for!
Old Fashioned Banana Cake
Ingredients
- 3 very ripe bananas mashed
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar lightly packed
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs at room temperature
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan.
- Start by adding the bananas to the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mash the bananas with a fork.
- Next, add in the granulated sugar, and brown sugar and mix on low speed until combined.
- With the mixer still on low, add the oil, eggs, sour cream, and vanilla. Mix until smooth.
- In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
- With the mixer on low, add the dry ingredients to the banana mixture and mix just until combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 45 to 50 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Then turn out onto a cooling rack, and cool completely.
- Spread the frosting thickly on the top of the cake and decorate with walnut halves.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- 1 stick of REAL butter – slightly softened
- 1 8 oz block of cream cheese – slightly softened
- 4 cups of powdered sugar
- 1 Tbs vanilla extra
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
- Place the cream cheese and butter in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and beat on medium speed until fully combined and smooth, about 1 minute.
- Reduce the speed to low, slowly add the powdered sugar mixture, and beat until fully incorporated and smooth, about 3 minutes. Stop the mixer and scrape down the paddle and sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
- Turn the mixer to medium speed and mix until fully incorporated and smooth, about 3 minutes. Use immediately.
Notes
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Sarah says
Yum!!! If you’ve come across this recipe I recommend you try it! So good!