Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

2 sticks butter, softened to room temperature (please use butter)
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup mashed ripe banana
1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe following)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat 2, 9-inch layer cake pans with cooking spray. In a large mixing bowl combine butter and sugar. Mix on high for 1 minute, until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add mashed banana and beat for 1 minute. In a medium mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt, and baking soda, stirring well to mix. Add to banana mixture. On low speed, continue mixing until thoroughly mixed. Add milk and vanilla. Mix for 1 minute. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool in pans on a rack for 10 minutes. Unmold and cool on rack for 2 hours. When cooled, place one layer on a serving plate and frost with cream cheese frosting. Cover with second layer and frost top and sides of cake.

Cream Cheese Frosting
1 8oz. pkg. cream cheese, room temperature
1 stick butter or margarine, room temperature
1 lb. confectioner's sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

In a large mixing bowl combine cream cheese and butter. Mix on high for 1 minute or until light and fluffy. Add confectioner's sugar and vanilla. On low speed, continue mixing for 2 minutes, until light and fluffy and thoroughly mixed. Mixture should be free of lumps. Frost Banana Cake or any cake.


I made this cake as a last minute cake for my youngest son's birthday. It was really yummy if you like banana bread or banana bars. It was definitely easy! He liked it, my oldest didn't. I got this recipe out of "The One-Armed Cook" by Cynthia Stevens Graubart and Cathrine Fliegal.

Happy Cooking!