
5 minutes
40 minutes
45 minutes
This easy banana cake is light, moist and full of flavour. It’s perfect for sharing for afternoon tea and is a great way to use up overripe bananas.
4.8 Stars (40 Reviews)
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Preheat the oven to 160C / 320F and grease a round cake pan.
Melt butter and sugar in a small saucepan on low heat, stirring regularly. Remove from heat and add vanilla extract. Set aside.
Mash bananas in a large mixing bowl, then add the egg and mix well. Add the melted butter and mix well.
Add flour and milk to the mixing bowl and fold to combine, being careful not to overmix.
Pour cake mixture into the greased cake pan. Arrange banana slices is a decorative pattern on top and sprinkle over cinnamon sugar.
Bake for 40 minutes or until golden and a skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool in the baking pan for 10 minutes, then move to a wire rack to completely cool.
1. Bananas - Use 2 large bananas or 3 small. Make sure your bananas are ripe - the darker, spottier and uglier, the better.
2. Flour - If you don't have self raising flour on hand simply use 1 & 1/2 cup of all purpose flour and 3 teaspoons of baking powder.
3. Cinnamon Sugar - Make your own cinnamon sugar by mixing 3 tbsps granulated sugar with 1 & 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon. You only need 1 tbsp for this recipe but you can store the rest in an airtight jar. Sprinkle over pancakes, hot buttered toast, fruit crumbles, muffins before baking - there's so many ways to use it!
4. Mixing - Be careful not to overmix your batter once you've added the flour in. Overmixing causes your cake to be dense. Fold the flour in until just combined.
5. Topping - Feel free to make without the banana slice topping if you don't have any more bananas on hand.
6. Storing - store at room temperature for 1-2 days, in the fridge for 5 days or in the freezer for up to 2 months.
Amount Per Serving:
calories
293kcalcarbohydrates
42gprotein
3gfat
13gsaturated fat
8gpolyunsaturated fat
4gcholesterol
34mgsodium
289mgfiber
2gsugar
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April 8, 2020
Perfect banana recipe for all my bananas that are starting to get soft. I love a piece a cake with a cup of coffee anytime of day!
April 9, 2020
Me too!!
April 28, 2020
Dear Cassie,
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe, I followed it completely except for the sliced bananas & cinnamon sugar topping part, and it turned out just perfect, soft and not too sweet, delicious with coffee! Must admit, I mixed in a handful of chopped walnuts and homemade candied orange peels, they add a nice touch 🙂 Warm regards from Moscow, Russia
April 29, 2020
Thank you Valeria! Made my day waking up to this. I love those additions and your homemade candied orange peels sound so good. How do you make them?
April 29, 2020
Happy to hear that Cassie! I use 6 medium oranges to make a batch. I cut them in halves, juice them, then peel them from the inside out so the fruit pulp is gone, then cut the peels in stripes less than a quarter of an inch wide and weigh them (this tells me the weight of sugar I'm going to need for the syrup later on). Then I cook them twice in salty water (pour enough cold water to cover them and add about a tablespoonful of salt, bring to boil and simmer for 10 minutes, drain, rinse with cold running water, drain, and repeat). Repeat the cooking routine one more time without adding salt, drain and set aside. Now prepare the syrup by mixing equal parts in weight sugar and water (the weight of each is the same or slightly less than the weight of the peels before cooking), slowly bring to boil, stir till the sugar dissolves, then add the peels and press onto them lightly making sure they're all covered in syrup. Now simmer them with the lid closed (this part takes kind of long, and my original recipe said cook them with the lid open cause the point is getting the water to evaporate. With the lid closed, this still happens, but slower, and the peels get nicely saturated with the syrup). Check on them and stir them carefully not to break them up too much but to keep them evenly covered by the syrup. When there's little water left, finish the cooking with the lid open, watching for the moment before all of the water is gone and they start sticking to the bottom. Remove and spread them out onto a non-stick dish/rack (I use my glass cookware for this) and leave for a few hours to dry, tasting now and then to stop drying when they reach your preferred chewiness). Store in an airtight container. Sorry about this turning out as such a long description but I thought details matter to get it right, and I hope you enjoy this as I enjoyed your great recipe))
April 29, 2020
Thank you so much Valeria! I really appreciate you passing this on as I'd really like to try it. Looking forward to it 🙂 Thanks again
January 12, 2021
I tried it. It's not too sweet. Iove. it
January 12, 2021
That's great Irene! So glad you enjoyed this one 🙂
April 14, 2021
I am so happy I found you I am new to air frying love the way you present your recipes very prociseand easy to follow which is what I need
April 17, 2022
Love this Banana cake recipe very soft and not too sweet and easy to make. Thankyou.
January 24, 2023
I just found this recipe today when doing a search for using up 2 bananas that were getting very ripe. I normally make banana bread but wanted to try something a bit different. I didn't have an extra banana to slice onto the top, but I did sprinkle some sliced almonds before baking. This is delicious and a nice change from the heavier banana bread I normally make. Thank you also for the directions that include how to make with when one is lacking the self-rising flour. I am in the USA, and it is not a common thing to use self-rising flour here.
February 7, 2023
Hi, could someone please tell me what size cake tin I need for this?
February 27, 2025
The most easiest of banana cakes to make