What kind of fool has her oven on during the middle of the day when it is hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk outside? You know what? I am that kind of fool. I am the kind of fool that was tempted last week by a Banana Cake photo and article I read on Just Baking. I am the kind of fool that bought extra bananas over the weekend, simply so I could have a few ripe ones to bake with. I am the kind of fool who is tired of making ice cream, milkshakes, and slushy drinks and wants to get back to some honest to goodness baking. You try this recipe and then let’s see who is calling who a fool, OK?
Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Left over bananas get turned in to something sweet!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas
- Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 8 oz cream cheese softened
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 275°.
- Grease and flour 2 10 inch cake pans (Or use Wilton's Cake Release...one of my favorite products!).
- In a small bowl, mix mashed banana with the lemon juice; set aside.
- In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream 3/4 cup butter and 2 cups sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time, then stir in 2 tsp vanilla.
- Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk.
- Stir in banana mixture.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in pre heated oven for one hou and 20 minutesr or until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean. (Oven temps vary...watch your cake as it may take more or less time)
- Remove from oven and place directly into the freezer for 45 minutes.
- This will make the cake very moist.
- For the frosting, cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth.
- Beat in 1 tsp vanilla.
- Add icing sugar and beat on low speed until combined, then on high speed until frosting is smooth and creamy.
- Spread on cooled cake.
man you’re my kinda fool cos i have a bunch of bananas ripening right now! 😀 have bookmarked to try 🙂
I saw this cake and it made me want to make it too!! Call me crazy, but I cooked a stove-top dinner last night, and I swear that was hotter than turning the oven on! So this just might be calling my name in the very near future….
You are a great kinda baking fool Kristen!!:D
Looks so good,I am tempted to get up and make it but I must resist.I still have some Vanilla Oreo Ice Cream left.Of all the cakes,I love spicy Carrot cake with Cream Cheese icing.Hope you find a great recipe for it:)
YUM! I can’t wait to try that!
I want to be a baking fool too once I saw this delicious looking cake!!
Cake after an Alton Brown cake show! Yummy! Tagged you for seven random facts. Cake me later!
Never, never, under any circumstances would I be calling you a fool unless it would be to call you "fool for my heart"!!
Lovely cake. There’s always a soft spot in my heart for bananas!
This fool is so glad your blog doesn’t have "smell-a-vision" cause I’m drooling enough, thank you very much, just from the photos. It sounds wonderful!
Hugs!
Kat
oh you devil! and w/ cream chz frosting, my faaaaavorite. since your being silly, can you make me one too?
i baked like an idiot last weekend too at hubby’s request, now i have to again – this looks awesome!!
This is one of the best cake I have seen! Can’t wait to try it… 🙂
I love banana cake, with cream cheese it can only get better!
this looks and sounds SO amazing. i’m glad you decided to turn on the oven today!
Baking never sounds foolish to me and this cake looks wonderful. Bannanas and cream cheese. Yum!
I tagged you for 7 random things about me meme.
I’ll join you on being a baking fool with this cake any day! It look wonderful!
Oh yum, I definitely need to make this very very soon!
That’s exactly the recipe I use except mine calls for 1/8 cup more sugar. It’s my go-to banana cake recipe (although Dorie’s Classic Banana Bundt Cake was pretty good too.)
That is like the most moist cake I have ever seen. I think I could tear that beautiful cake up without needing any milk whatsoever.
Tired of ice cream? (tucks tail between legs and slinks off to the woods to mourn in solitude)
(may return for slice of cake later)
Don’t worry Kristen, tou are not the only fool around. I had the same thign with some granola craving and my granola take about an hour to cook. At the end I was the one that was cooking.
You’re my kind of fool! Your cake looks wonderful and well worth turning on the oven for.
you are one crazy fool!
Banana cake sounds yummy.
Thanks for another mouthwatering recipe!
I do love me some banana cake(it was my wedding cake flavor) especially with cream cheese frosting.
Grandma Sumner was famous for her banana-nut cake. She baked a three layer cake and used a brown sugar seafoam fluffy frosting. In between layers she put sliced bananas and pecan halves and then om top put the pecan halves in a decorative pattern. It was delicious and very pretty. She, of course, was a very good cook and baker. Also a very good mom.
That looks fantastic. I love cream cheese as well and banana bread, never even thought of combining the two into a cake.
Kristen, I am a fool too. I bake all year round. That’s how I know that I am a bit crazy when it comes to cooking/baking. I’m glad that you made this cake. It looks delicious!
Trying to catch up on posts AGAIN – I am so with you.. even though it’s hotter than hades I need to bake once in a while! The banana cake looks HEAVENLY. Good choice. =)
Love, love, love the grilled pork chops below – will so be trying them soon! Also, the slushies hahaha I’d never think of using kool-aid, excellent idea!
You and me both! I cannot "not turn the oven on in the summer"…rain or shine, hail or blazing heat, especially with a cake as beautiful as this one!
Oh man just two weeks ago it was 95 degrees and I decided to bake. I would fire up the oven for your cake, it looks delish!
I’m that kind of fool too! In terms of the heat and baking, I have no choice. The climate where I live is hot all year round 🙂
Yummy! Banana Cake. Please don’t mention hot sidewalks. We can’t remember what the sun looks like here in the UK! Mx
I just made something like this for my mom – but with a rum flavored frosting! Cream cheese sounds insanely delicious though!!
I’ve done it too! LOL!!! Then I’m like, OUR BILL! OH NO! LOL!
Oh man, you done did it again- this is something I’d love to make. Another one to put on the "to try someday" list (it’s growing).
Hmmm, and I just happen to have buttermilk on hand from making homemade bleu cheese dip the other day…
Beautiful photo and the recipe sounds delicious!
Delicious!! And I love that it doesn’t have nuts. I like nuts, but oddly, just not in my desserts!
I don’t like banana flavored things but that looks pretty darn good!
This cake looks really delicious.If i had’nt read the name though i would’ve taken it for a carrot cake. Well u cant really be a fool … c what came out of baking in the heat .A wonderful cake for dinner time and 37 comments for it !