Crazy Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

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If you’re looking for a banana cake recipe that’s ridiculously moist and delicious every single time, this is your cake!

I know what you’re thinking. How crazy can a banana cake with cream cheese icing be? Well first of all, this cake is crazy-good, but that’s not the reason for the name of the recipe. The reason I call this the crazy banana cake is because of the unusual baking and cooling methods that the recipe calls for. Don’t worry. They’re not difficult. They’re just kind of … well… crazy!

I honestly forget where I got this recipe. I think one of my daycare parents might have given it to me. I’ve been making it for years. It’s a strange little recipe, so I’ll clarify a couple of things right away.First of all, the low oven temperature: 275ºF.

The second thing thing about this recipe is the cooling method. This banana cake comes right out of the oven and straight into the freezer. This is, apparently, the secret to the cake’s moistness. For this reason, you’re going to want to bake this cake in a pan that can withstand the quick change in temperature. I use my 9 x 13 Pyrex baking dish. I don’t cover the cake when I put it in the freezer; I just place it in the freezer with a towel folded underneath it (to prevent the heat from transferring into other items in my freezer.

Want to make it more nutritious? You can swap out half of the all-purpose flour with whole wheat flour.

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Crazy Banana Cake Ingredients:

• 1.5 cups very ripe bananas (3 fresh bananas or 4 thawed, previously frozen bananas)
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1.5 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
•  3/4 cup soft butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1.5 cups buttermilk (you can make homemade by adding 1 tbsp vinegar or lemon juice to regular milk)

For something a little less decadent, try my bread machine banana chocolate chip loaf.

To make my crazy banana cake with cream cheese icing:

1. Pre-heat oven to 275º F, and grease and flour (or spray) a 9×13 cake pan.

2. Mash your bananas, and mix with lemon juice. Set aside.

3. In a med bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

4. For homemade buttermilk, combine milk and vinegar/lemon juice in a small bowl. Set aside.

5. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar with electric beaters.

6. Beat in eggs, one at a time.  

7. Stir in vanilla.

8. Beat in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk.

9. Stir in bananas.

10. Pour batter into your cake pan.

Bake at 275º F for 1 hour and 10 mins (or until knife comes out clean).

Edited to add: Some folks have to bake their cake longer than 1 hr and 10 minutes. If your cake doesn’t pass the toothpick test at the 70 minute mark, let it bake longer, checking every 10 minutes until it’s done.

Now, for the crazy part:

Take the cake out of the oven and place it in the freezer for 45 minutes. You don’t need to cover the cake, but you’ll want to place it on a thick, folded towel to protect items underneath.

Remove after 45 minutes let it sit on the counter until it’s cool enough to frost.

You may also enjoy our Banana Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes

Cream Cheese Icing Recipe:

• 1/2 cup softened butter
• 8 oz cream cheese, room temp
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3.5 cups icing sugar (also known as powdered sugar or confectioner’s sugar)

1. Cream butter and cream cheese.
2. Beat in vanilla and icing sugar on low until combined, then high until smooth.

This makes a ton of icing. You can halve the recipe if you’d like. I personally love cream cheese more than life itself, so the thick layer of frosting that this recipe yields makes me a very happy hooligan indeed.

Slather that icing all over your crazy banana cake, and enjoy! Pour yourself an ice cold glass of milk, and enjoy!

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