Banana and peanut butter – 2 flavours that just go together. But have you ever had them together in cake form? This is two breakfast items all fancied up and pretending to be dessert, but if you want you can have it for breakfast!
The other great thing about this recipe is that it is all mixed in one bowl. Dry ingredients, followed by wet ingredients, followed by eggs and there you have it – your cake is ready to bake! The banana gives it great moistness and that amazing flavour. I prefer to bake this in a 9×13 pan, but feel free to do in 2 round pans and make it a really pretty cake.
The frosting has just a hint of peanut butter, not too overpowering. Just enough to enhance the fluffy frosting and give that great combination of banana and peanut butter. It makes quite a bit of frosting so that you can spread it on nice and thick so that every bite has it’s fair share.
- Cake
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1¾ tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large very ripe bananas, peeled and broken into chunks.
- ½ cup butter, room temp
- ¼ cup sour cream
- ¼ cup milk
- 2 eggs,room temp
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Frosting
- ½ cup butter, room temp
- 2 tbsp smooth peanut butter
- 4 cups of icing sugar
- 2 tbsp heavy cream
- ½ tsp vanilla
- Preheat oven to 350 ℉ and grease a 9x13 cake pan.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer or large mixing bowl if using a hand mixer, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the sugar, banana, butter, sour cream and milk. Mix on low speed until combined, then at med speed for 1 minute.
- Add the eggs and vanilla and beat a further 2 minutes.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth top.
- Bake for 25-35 minutes or until golden and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Place on rack to completely cool.
- Meanwhile for frosting:
- Beat butter and peanut butter together. Add 2 cups of icing sugar and beat until smooth. Add vanilla and cream and beat until fluffy. Gradually add remaining icing sugar.
- Spread over cooled cake.
This banana cake looks delicious. Nice post.
The Old Fat Guy