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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
Cook Time 45 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 10

Equipment

  • Oven
  • 2 9 inch round cake pans
  • Mixing bowl or electric mixer

Ingredients
  

The Cake Components

  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • cup oil (I used melted coconut oil)
  • 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

Instructions
 

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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