2 weeks ago, the Handsome Husband came home with 10 pounds of free bananas. As I stood there trying to figure out what to do with them, I suddenly remembered I had torn out a recipe for Double Banana Cake from the May 2012 issue of Bon Appetit Magazine.
Perfect, I’ll serve this for dessert tonight I thought.
And then The Girl came home from school and saw the cake on the counter.
Is that for The Flute Player?
Why?
Because her birthday is tomorrow. I didn’t get her anything for her birthday. I can bring it to school and give it to her before first period.
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And that was that. No banana cake for Mavis.
But, if the recipe was featured in Bon Appetit Magazine, you can bet it’s gonna be good.
Here is the recipe with a few changes.
Recipe – Double Layer Banana Cake
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups unsalted butter , softened
3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
2 1/4 cups sugar
6 large eggs
3 cups bananas, mashed
3/4 cup sour cream {I used plain yogurt}
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
4 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream {I used 2% milk}
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
2 almost ripe bananas cut into slices
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325.
- Butter and flour two cake pans {I used 9-inch pans}.
- Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl and set aside.
- Pull out your electric mixer and beat 1 1/2 cups butter and sugar together for about 3 minutes. You want the mixture to be light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs one at a time, then once incorporated mix in the flour mixture slowly.
- Add mashed bananas and sour cream {or plain yogurt}.
- Pour batter into 2 cake pans and bake for 45- 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- For the Frosting
- Mix everything {except the bananas} in a mixer with the wire wisk attachment and whippty do dah until the frosting is light and fluffy. About 5 minutes or so.
- Place a dab of frosting in the center of you cake stand, {I always do this to prevent sliding} add 1 layer of cake, add frosting, then a layer of sliced bananas, and finally then a second layer of cake.
- Frost cake with remaining frosting and place in the refrigerator to chill.
Notes
Serve with vanilla bean ice cream {if you get the chance}. Or have your daughter steal the cake and give it to her friend for her birthday. Either way, someone gets cake.
Bon Appetit Desserts: The Cookbook for All Things Sweet and Wonderful
Jen says
That is an adorable cake stand. Where did you get it?
Mavis says
Costco, last Spring. 🙂
nancypantsgirl says
This looks HEAVENLY. I don’t really like bananas plain and on their own but I do love a banana dessert! 😉 Oh and in smoothies. Mmmmm.
Sakura says
I love your cake plate!
crlzmmr says
Where did your husband find 10 lbs of free bananas?
Mavis says
I have no idea. He comes home with random stuff people give him all the time. Probably someone from work if I had to guess.
Zoe says
You are very kind. I’d have a very hard time giving a cake like that to my daughter’s friend. I’d make her bake the cake herself (my daughter, not the friend).
I got 10 pounds of bananas this week, too. But mine weren’t quite free, just very cheap. I froze a bunch for smoothies but there’s still some languishing on the counter. I might just have to make a cake with them.
Mari the Kiwi says
I dehydrate bananas and I am know u have a dehydrator. I put equal amounts of lemon juice (to stop them going black) and honey (just a bit tart with out honey) in a small bowl and mix thoroughly. I cut bananas on the diagonal about 1/4 inch thick and put in the dehydrator. Usually leave them over night in my machine. So handy for lunches or a non guilty snack and great for grandkids who always arrive to visit me hungry.
AND your cake looks divine. Alas cooked bananas do not like me or I would be indulging. Better for the waist like too I guess.
Ashley says
Dear Mavis,
My birthday is 10/14. I love bananas….
:p Yummy looking cake!
Elizabeth F says
Love your green hob-nail cake plate! I have to make my husband a banana cake every year for his birthday…have done it for 32 years now. He only wants whip cream for frosting as that is what his mother did. She used a box mix though. I have always used the recipe from the JOY OF COOKING. That one uses yogurt also. It makes a very moist and dense cake and has the layer of bananas.
My ripening bananas at the moment have a DO NOT TOUCH sign on them. They are to become banana bran with mini chocolate chip mini muffins for my church library open house on Sunday.
Shereen Travels Cheap says
Yum! I have a birthday coming up for a friiend, and I think this will be perfect! Thanks for posting. We love bananas.
Misty says
Hey the frosting called for 1/2 cup milk? Isn’t that to much?
Gina says
I’m probably missing something but does the recipe list the amount of mashed banana? I see the two bananas for slicing between the layers but no amount of mashed banana.
This looks divine!
Thanks!
Gina
Gina says
Nevermind. I knew I was clueless.
Got it now.
Thx.
Gina