Love Banana Cake? Well you’re in luck as this is the BEST Fluffy Banana Cake recipe out there – I promise!! Both regular and Thermomix instructions included.
Thanks to the oversupply of bananas we discovered ourselves with recently, I decided to pop a few aside for baking. It’s been a long time since I last made a banana cake or banana bread recipe, primarily because we are always running out thanks to our two banana loving cheeky monkeys and I’d been wanting to make Mum’s Fluffy Banana Cake recipe for the past couple of weeks.
I decided to use a ring tin to bake this cake in as not only does it cut down the cooking time, but I think it makes any cake look that little bit more fancy. Be warned this makes a BIG cake, so if your tin is on the small side, it’s a good idea to spread it across two tins, or even make a batch of muffins too.
As usual, I couldn’t help but play around a little with the recipe and instead of icing it with a simple vanilla frosting, I decided a cake as delicious and grand as this one deserved to be topped with a rich Cream Cheese Frosting – yum!
Tips for making my Fluffy Banana Cake recipe:
- You can bake this cake in a variety of different baking tins, just be aware the cooking time will vary. For example when I bake this recipe in a lamington tin, it takes around 35 minutes to cook.
- This mixture makes a very large cake, if your tin has shallow sides, it’s probably best to split in into two cake tins to avoid it overflowing.
- You can also use frozen bananas for this recipe, just bring them to room temperature before mashing.
- This recipe is freezer friendly.
You can find the recipe I used for rich cream cheese frosting here.
You can also find the Thermomix version of the Cream Cheese Frosting here.
Fluffy Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- 125 g of butter - room temperature
- 1 cup of caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups of self raising flour
- 1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 4 large bananas
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and line the base of a DEEP 20cm round cake tin.
- Place the butter and sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixture and beat until they mixture is light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs to the creamed butter and sugar one at a time, make sure you beat each egg in well before the next addition.
- Remove the bowl for the electric mixer stand and sift in the flour, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon.
- Add the mashed bananas and carefully fold through until the mixture has just combined.
- Spoon the cake mixture into a lined and deep 20cm cake pan (or a 22cm ring tin) and bake for 50 minutes (if cooking in a round tin) or 35 minutes if baking in a ring tin or until the cake is cooked when tested with a skewer
Thermomix Fluffy Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- 125 grams butter - room temperature
- 220 grams caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 500 grams soft bananas approximately 4 large bananas
- 300 grams self raising flour
- 1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and line the base of a DEEP 20cm round cake tin.
- Place the butter and caster sugar into your Thermomix bowl and mix for 20 seconds, speed 2.5 to cream. Scrape down the sides of your bowl and mix for a further 30 seconds, speed 3 or until light and creamy.
- Add the bananas and eggs and mix for 10 seconds, speed 5 to combine.
- Scrape down the sides of your Thermomix bowl and add the self raising flour, bicarb soda and cinnamon and mix for 10 seconds, speed 5.
- Scrape down the sides of your Thermomix bowl and mix for a further 7 seconds speed 5 to combine..
- Spoon the cake mixture into a lined and deep 20cm cake pan (or a 22cm ring tin) and bake for 50 minutes (if cooking in a round tin) or 35 minutes if baking in a ring tin or until the cake is cooked when tested with a skewer
Notes
This fluffy banana cake was also a hit with the boys, although I think they would have been happy to just sit down with a big bowl of the cream cheese frosting if I had of let them!
What food items are you constantly running out of?
Are your kids crazy for bananas too?
Sammie @ The Annoyed Thyroid says
You had me at cream cheese frosting! I love a good banana cake!
Lauren says
You can’t go wrong with a good cream cheese frosting!
Dannielle @ Zamamabakes says
My Mum is a huge banana cake fan as is one of my work colleagues, they would be in heaven eating a slice of your cake, I’ll be keeping this little treasure up my sleeve for their upcoming birthdays.
I looove cream cheese frosting, the perfect finishing touch! xx
Lauren says
They would LOVE this cake Dannielle! I have to agree, cream cheese frosting really is the best finishing touch I think 🙂
Kat - The Organised Housewife says
Ooh thank you for Lauren, i just love cooking with bananas! And banana cake is high up on my list of favourites. Looking forward to trying yours x
Lauren says
Thanks Kat, I hope you enjoy it 🙂
Jessica @ Sweetest Menu says
Do you remember when bananas were really expensive a few years back? They were like gold! So glad they are cheaper now but I always seem to be in an oversupply of overripe bananas. This banana cake looks wonderful – and cream cheese icing is my weakness!
Lauren says
I do! I can even remember paying almost $4 for a single banana as a ‘treat’ for lunch one day!
Jess - A Little Part of the World says
Oh yummy. I LOVE banana cake!! I will have to give this a go. My banana loving monkeys will love this too. Jx
Lauren says
It’s good to hear I’m not the only one with banana loving monkeys!
Vicki @ Boiled Eggs & Soldiers says
We LOVE banana cakes here and that one looks delicious. Mine have gone a bit fussy on bananas lately but still eat them in cakes so will be making this one for sure!
Lucy @ Bake Play Smile says
Yes!!! we’re exactly the same… bananas are always running out in our house too! By far my favourite fruit. This looks absolutely delicious. Gorgeous photos too xx
Ingrid @ Fabulous and Fun Life says
Milk and cereal always run out on a regular basis in our household.
Although today much as I hate wastage I had to do a big chuck out of all our leftover raw and cold meats and cheeses etc that had been in our powerless fridge for way too long! Our fridge in now looking very very bare!
Rebecca @ Dorm Room Baker says
Somehow bananas in my apartment have a knack of going overripe before my fiance or I get the chance to use them. This usually escalates into a minor argument about why on earth the other person didn’t just eat the darn bananas. Guess I’m making him banana cake next time this happens instead!
Lila says
That looks fantastic, so fluffy!
Bele @ BlahBlah says
Oh, wow, I need to do this with my son. He will LOVE it. Thank you x
Tash @ Gift Grapevine says
This would not last 10 seconds in our house! We’re big banana fans so I’ll be giving this recipe a go. I’m not a fan of icing but cream cheese frosting is a whole different story 🙂
Sonia Life Love Hiccups says
There is seriously no better frosting in my mind than cream cheese frosting. None. Zilch, Zip 🙂 xx
peregrinationgourmande says
I’m totally addict to banana bakery thing. Just tell me, why fluffy? It seems really smooth, is that why? My banana cakes are always a bit heavy (can’t find the right word)… xx cathy