Gluten-Free Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
It's the perfect hybrid of banana bread and cake—it's banana cake. It's as moist as banana bread, as indulgent as a dessert should be, and super easy to master.
Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Cook Time 45 minutes mins
The Cake Components
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup oil (I used melted coconut oil)
- ⅓ cup sour cream (or greek yogurt)
- ¼ cup butter softened
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup mashed banana (about 2-3 bananas, depending on size)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups gluten-free all purpose flour
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon (or as much as you feel is right)
- ½ tsp salt
- ¾ cup buttermilk
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1 cup powdered sugar (confectioner's sugar)
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp salt
For the Cake
Preheat your oven to 350℉. Adjust as needed if your oven is like mine and doesn't cook to the proper temperature. (An oven thermometer can tell you how well your oven does its ONE JOB.)
Grease your two cake pans and set aside
In your mixing bowl, blend together the sugar, brown sugar, sour cream, oil, and butter until smooth and creamy
Add the eggs, one at a time and blend in
Incorporate the mashed banana and vanilla extract; mix to combine
Now it's time to add the flour and buttermilk, BUT mix them in like this: 1 cup of flour, followed by ¼ cup of buttermilk - then mix. Then, cup #2 of flour and ¼ cup of buttermilk, and mix. Finally, the third cup of flour and the rest of the buttermilk, and mix well. Pour the batter into the two cake pans; try to get them even with one another. (A kitchen scale can help with this if you don't trust your eyeballing technique.)
Let the batter rest for 15 minutes before you put it into the oven
Bake for 40-45 minutes, depending on your oven. The top should be golden brown, and an inserted toothpick should come out clean.
Cool in the pans for about 10 minutes, then turn the cakes out of the pans onto wire cooling racks.
While they are cooling, prepare your frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Mix the softened cream cheese and powdered sugar on low speed until combined.
Beat it on high until it looks nice and fluffy
Add the heavy cream, vanilla extract, and salt, and beat at low speed
Mix on high until fluffy and glorious. Feel free to adjust the texture with more cream or more sugar as needed. The final frosting ¼texture should hold a peak on a spoon, and not be too runny.
Once the cake has cooled COMPLETELY, you can begin icing your cake
Decorate the final product with banana slices or cinnamon
Enjoy your masterpiece!
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