Homemade Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
If you love banana bread, you need to try this delicious Homemade Banana Cake topped with a thick cream cheese frosting.
Wait until you try this delicious Homemade Banana Cake topped with a thick cream cheese frosting. It’s everything you love about banana bread, but better!
Don’t let those brown bananas go to waste. Once you make this yummy cake, you’ll want to make it again and again.
Not only is this banana cake delicious, but it’s so easy to make too with a handful of common ingredients you probably have on hand.
What also makes this banana cake amazing is this delicious cream cheese frosting. I love it! Once you try this cream cheese frosting, it will become your go-to cream cheese frosting recipe!
I keep this banana cake simple but you can add in chopped walnuts or even chocolate chips. Just mix them in the batter before you pour it into your cake pan.
HOMEMADE BANANA CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 25-30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients
Banana Cake
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2–3 bananas)
cream cheese frosting
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened
- 1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
- 3 cups confectioners sugar
- 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray a 9×13 baking dish with baking spray and set aside
- Using an electric mixer beat butter and sugar until blended.
- Add in eggs, vanilla and sour cream and continue to mix until combined.
- In a medium bowl mix together flour, baking soda and salt.
- Gradually add in dry ingredients into the wet mixture and continue to mix until combined then mix in mashed bananas.
- Pour batter into prepared baking dish and bake for on the center rack for 25-30 minutes or until cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Set aside to cool.
cream cheese frosting
- Using an electric mixer mix together butter, cream cheese and until combined.
- Add in confectioners sugar, whipping cream and vanilla extract and mix until creamy.
If frosting is too thin, add in a little more confectioners sugar. If it’s too thick add in a little more heavy whipping cream until desired consistency.
Notes
You can also add in chopped walnut and/or chocolate chips into the batter if desired. Fold in 1/2-3/4 cup before pouring batter into pan.
