April 12th, 2008
Mmmm Banana Cake
One of my favourite things in the world are banana cake or banana bread. Everyone, if there is banana bread to be had, please inform me. ;)
This week, I tried 2 recipes. One banana bread and one banana CAKE recipe. Both were pretty good but the bread needs some workin on. So here’s the cake recipe for you guys!
 Le Very Awesome Banana Cake
3 each bananas very ripe
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups flour
1 cup walnuts chopped
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
125g butter
3 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs
Preheat oven to 350 F. Butter bread pan and coat with flour.
Mix flour, salt & baking soda. Cream butter & sugar. Mix in egg & vanilla. Mix in bananas and nuts. Add flour mixture.
Mix all ingredients together thoroughly. Pour in bread pan. Bake at 350 F for approx. 1 hour or until a toothpick can be extracted cleanly from the bread.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:35 pm
I have soooo many banana bread and cake recipes to try… but you posted this one on my birthday so now I definitely have to try it!
November 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Just like above, I have got plenty of banana cake recipes but your pics definately let me wanna try!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Jesse – That is so cool! LOL! Best reason to choose a recipe ever, happy birthday a year back! ;-) Let me know how it goes!!
FamilyFirst – Awww thanks! TRY IT! You won’t regret it. I have a never ending list of banana cake recipes too! OK so I lied…I only just started having a list ever since I found tastespotting a few weeks back!
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:10 am
wow that looks so delicate and yummy. i will try it this weekend since i have loads of black bananas.
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Lauren – Oh doo try! I’m really excited to see how it turned out for you! Yep turn those stinky bananas into somethin beautiful! ;-) Let me know how it goes =D
February 25th, 2009 at 3:16 am
your banana cake looks delicious. i have a question though. my banana bread/cake i bake always have black specs in it. how did your turn out without them and yellow? lemon juice?
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:28 pm
cindy Thank you! It was probably the banana I used – not so speckled. Try em out and you’ll see! I however was disappointed at the lack of spots LOL. The yellow was natural – banana and butter. No lemon juice, although it may be interesting!
April 9th, 2009 at 11:33 am
I’ve been trying to find an AWESOME banana cake recipe and found your blog via Tastespotting. I’ve tried two recipes thus far but in both cases the cake turned out way too dense…essentially like banana bread. :( (which tastes great, but not the texture I am aiming for). Any tips on getting your cake light and fluffy? (FYI, the recipes I’ve tried thus far include all the same ingredients you’ve listed here, but maybe slightly different measurements).
April 9th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Terri This is an awesome banana cake! It’s tender and fluffy, I wouldn’t say light & fluffy but tender & fluffy!
If you want an awesome banana bread, head over to http://mybakingaddiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/one-very-moist-banana-cake.html as this produced a nice banana-bread-cake texture. It’s called a Banana Cake, but it wasn’t fluffy – the texture was exactly as per Jamie’s picture! :) I loved it, and loved my recipe here too.
As for light & fluffy, always separate your yolks & whip the egg whites til they’re a stiff foam. Fold it in after all the ingredients are in.
I’ve only made a cupcake recipe of this, but it works really well: http://auntyyochana.blogspot.com/2006/07/banana-cake.html – I reduce sugar to 120g & butter to 150g and sometimes add chocolate chips =)
Some recipes that look light & fluffy:
http://mybakingcottage.blogspot.com/2008/07/banana-cake-steam-or-bake.html
http://www.greatfood.ie/item_display.asp?cde=2&id=1384
http://quickneasytreats.blogspot.com/2005/07/light-fluffy-banana-cake.html
http://bake-a-story.blogspot.com/2008/12/moist-fluffy-soft-banana-cake.html
Let me know how it turns out! You should start a banana cake blog! Chronicling the search for the best one. I would so do that, if I had time! I’d so do that to search for the perfect recipes for banana cake, banana bread, carrot cake, chocolate AND vanilla/butter cake! Still searching for the elusive best recipes, tho I’ve kinda found the ones for choc & banana ;-)
xoxo
Eunice
April 9th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
BTW, I didn’t put in any nuts!
September 20th, 2009 at 10:50 am
This receipt is fucked up! My girlfriend followed your receipt to make the cake and it turns out a rubber instead of light and flully. I ate it and thought it was great but my girlfriend said it wasn’t even a cake. Help me to make it light and flully the way your picture shows, cause my girlfriend is so sweet and loving.
November 6th, 2009 at 5:02 am
[...] This cake is looooooooovely. It really is bananas. Buttery, moist and soft. The blog I got the recipe from is here! [...]
November 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
hi eunice
thanks so much for this awesome recipe. i hv tried it out and it tasted yummy… but my presentation of the cake is not as nice as yours … hmmm need to buck up my photography skills. anyway, i love reading your blog, you are so young yet so talented in baking … thumbs up!
cheers
esther