Fluffy Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

5 from 3 votes

This fluffy banana cake with cream cheese frosting is the ultimate dessert! Both regular and Thermomix instructions are included.

Prep Time15

Cook Time50

Total Time1 5

Course: Cakes

Cuisine: Australian

Servings: people

Calories: 408kcal

Author: Lauren

Preheat your oven to 170 degrees celsius (fan-forced) and line the base and sides of a 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 and bicarbonate of soda.
Add the mashed bananas, vanilla extract and milk and carefully fold through until the mixture has just combined.
Spoon the cake mixture into prepared cake tin and bake for 45-50 minutes or until the cake is cooked when tested with a skewer
When the cake has completely cooled, place the cream cheese frosting ingredients into a bowl and use an electric mixer to combine until smooth and creamy. Add the frosting to the cooled cake.

Preheat your oven to 170 degrees celsius (fan-forced) and line the base and sides of a 20cm round cake tin.
Place the softened butter and caster sugar into the TM bowl and mix on Speed 3 for 30 seconds. Scraped down the sides of the bowl and mix for a further 15 seconds, speed 4
Add the eggs, banana, vanilla extract and milk and mix for 10 seconds, speed 5.
Add the self-raising flour and bi-carb soda and mix for 10 seconds, speed 4.
Scrape down the sides of the bowl and repeat for a further 5-10 seconds or until completely combined.
Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake in the oven for 45 - 50 minutes or until golden on top and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
When the cake has cooled completely, place the cream cheese, softened butter, pure icing sugar and vanilla extract into the TM bowl and mix on Speed 5 for 15 seconds.
Spread the frosting over the top of the cake (or cut the cake in half and use half of the frosting for the middle and half for the top

- You will need 200 grams of bananas for this recipe. Please don't be tempted to add more as it will change the texture of the cake.

- The browner the bananas the better! Brown bananas help to give this cake its sweetness.

- The baking time specified is for a 20cm round cake tin. You can use a different size/shape tin for your cake however please adjust the cooking time accordingly.
- If the cake is browning too quickly, cover the top with a piece of foil.

- It is important to let the cake completely cool before icing with the cream cheese frosting, otherwise the frosting will melt and slide off if the cake is still warm.

- It is important to use pure icing sugar for this recipe as this will help the frosting to hold its shape.

- The recipe for the cream cheese makes a generous amount, you can use the extra to add frosting to the middle of the cake (slice it in half) or cover the outside edges with frosting.

- Although we encourage you to top this cake with cream cheese frosting, you can also top it with a simple plain icing.