Ultimate Moist Banana Cake. Bring to room temperature, make the frosting, frost, and serve. Dark brown sugar and sour cream add depth to the batter, and we added melted butter instead of vegetable oil for a flavor boost. Most of time, I'll whip up the best banana bread or my favorite banana crumb muffins, but this time, I decided to search deep into the archives and make the best banana cake I've ever had.

Kids, families and friends will love this moist cake recipe topped with cream cheese frosting. To make the best banana cake you'll want to make sure your bananas are extra ripe. This is the BEST Banana Cake! You can have Ultimate Moist Banana Cake using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Ultimate Moist Banana Cake

It's 2 medium of Bananas.
You need 2 of Eggs.
You need 70 grams of Sugar.
Prepare 70 grams of A Cake flour.
It's 30 grams of A Almond powder.
It's 10 grams of A Cornstarch.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of A Baking powder.
You need 40 grams of Butter (unsalted).
It's 1 tbsp of Rum.

Print Recipe Pin Recipe Rate this Recipe. Best Banana Cake Jeff's BEST Banana Cake Recipe is a moist and tender banana cake with a creamy, sweet and buttery cream cheese frosting. Some say it is the best banana cake in the world and I may just agree. I take my baking pretty darn seriously.

Ultimate Moist Banana Cake step by step

Prepare by sifting together the powder ingredients marked A. Mash the bananas. Melt the butter and keep it at 50℃..
Beat the egg and add the sugar to it gradually, whisking in a bowl suspended over boiling water. When the sugar has dissolved, remove the bowl from the hot water..
Whisk until the mixture is stiff and thick, leaving trails when a spatula is run over it..
Add the sifted powder ingredients marked A to the mixture gradually, gently folding them into the mixture with a rubber spatula..
Add the butter and mix. It may be hard to mix the butter in if it has cooled down too much..
Add the bananas and rum and fold in gently..
Pour the mixture into a lined cake tin. Gently drop the cake tin from a low height onto the countertop a few times to remove excess air bubbles from the mixture. Bake for about 30 minutes in an oven preheated to 170℃..
Once baked, remove the cake from the cake tin, peel off the baking paper and leave to cool. Chill in the refrigerator..
Cut into suitable sizes and it's ready to eat..

My cakes and cookie recipes have to be top-notch. Anyway, back to this banana cake. Be sure to use over ripped bananas! No artificial banana extracts are needed when you do so. When I first made this Southern banana cake I was a bit nervous that it would taste like a frosted banana bread.