Simple Banana Cake Recipe

This is the best banana cake recipe I’ve ever made. It’s easy to make from scratch, moist, and topped with the simplest cream cheese frosting! This recipe is a goalkeeper!

I’m so happy to share our banana cake recipes since we shared our favorite banana bread recipes. I took inspiration from the popular carrot cake to make sure this cake is very moist and super delicious. I tried it (many times) until I got on board this gem and I’m so glad to share it with you!

What makes this banana cake so special is the use of extra mashed potatoes and melted butter in the batter. This simplifies the process (bye blender, Hello whisk!) and creates a tender, unusually moist cake with a strong banana flavor that exceeds other recipes I’ve tried.

Key Ingredients

• banana: I use more bananas in my banana cake than other recipes (3 medium). For the best cakes, use very ripe bananas. I’m talking about brown and spotted bananas. They are sweeter, making the baked cake soft and moist.
• Melted butter and oil: The butter adds incredible flavor, while 2 tablespoons of oil keeps super moist in the middle. I used avocado, safflower and vegetable oil and it worked very well. The same goes for melted coconut oil, but the baked cake will have a light coconut flavor.
• egg: This cake requires 2 eggs to add flavor and provide some structure for the cake.
• sugar: I like the combination of white sugar and brown sugar. I used 100% brown sugar and while it was delicious, the brown sugar did make it more wet as this cake was already very wet in the middle so the cake was always thick.
• sour cream: This is the last trick in my arsenal. Sour cream adds fat to our cake batter, which makes our banana cake even more tender and moist.
• flour: I use all-purpose flour, but this recipe makes gluten-free banana cakes with spelling flour or your favorite gluten-free flour mixture.
• baking soda: This helps our cake rise. We do not add baking powder (this cake recipe does not require). Check if your baking soda has not been open for more than 6 months (after which it has lost its effectiveness).
• Salt, cinnamon and vanilla extract: These make our cakes stunning, resulting in the teenager’s spiced cake.
• Cream Cheese Frosting: I kept the icing of this cake in the frosting instead of the typical cream cheese frosting. The banana cake tastes so much that when I tested various frostings with it, many people overwhelmed it. So, this shedding frosting is the champion of three ingredients (cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar)! That said, if you like the buttercream frosting in our carrot cake recipe, you can replace it!

The cake batter is as easy as whipping the ingredients together (you only need a few bowls and a whisk). Then I frosted using an electric blender (only 5 minutes). For more recipes for offering bananas, try my Simple Banana Muffins, Spice Banana Pancakes and my fantastic banana pudding!