Best Banana Cake With Chocolate Frosting Recipes

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BANANA CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE FROSTING



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I always requested banana cake with fudge frosting for my birthday. Mom's recipe is attached to my fridge-and my heart. It's funny how many memories live on in a stained handwritten recipe card. On a more practical note: It's important to make sure the whipped cream cheese is truly at room temperature before you use it. If not, it chills the softened butter and makes for lumpy frosting. -Jeanne Ambrose, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Desserts

Time 1h30m

Yield 16 servings.

Number Of Ingredients 18

3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 large eggs
1-1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (2 to 3 large)
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup chopped unsalted pistachios, toasted
CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:
2 containers (8 ounces each) whipped cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup baking cocoa
4-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Additional chopped unsalted pistachios, toasted, optional

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in bananas and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Fold in 3/4 cup pistachios., Transfer to two greased and floured 8-in. round baking pans. Bake 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For frosting, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add cocoa; mix until blended. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla; beat until creamy., Place one cake layer on a serving plate; spread top with 1 cup frosting. Top with remaining cake. Spread top and sides with 2 cups frosting. Press pistachios into sides of cake if desired., Cut a small hole in the corner of a large pastry or plastic bag; insert #127 petal pastry tip. Fill the bag with remaining frosting. Pipe concentric circles of frosting over top of cake. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour or until frosting is set.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 606 calories, Fat 28g fat (16g saturated fat), Cholesterol 111mg cholesterol, Sodium 510mg sodium, Carbohydrate 85g carbohydrate (62g sugars, Fiber 2g fiber), Protein 7g protein.

BANANA PUDDING CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE ICING



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I came up with this during a late night craving for a banana and chocolate milk shake, and it was a huge hit with my family!

Provided by Ashley Ritchie

Time 1h40m

Yield 14

Number Of Ingredients 15

4 large eggs
½ cup mashed ripe banana
½ cup water
1 (5 ounce) can evaporated milk
¼ cup sour cream
⅓ cup vegetable oil
1 (15.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
1 tablespoon light brown sugar
½ cup white sugar
1 (5 ounce) package instant banana cream pudding mix
½ cup salted sweet cream butter, softened
3 tablespoons heavy cream, or more to taste
⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 ½ cups confectioners' sugar

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
  • Mix together eggs, mashed banana, water, evaporated milk, sour cream, and oil in a large bowl. Stir in cake mix, then sugar and brown sugar, then pudding mix. Mix to thoroughly incorporate all ingredients; pour batter into the prepared pan.
  • Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool, about 30 minutes.
  • While cake is cooling, combine butter and cream for icing in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment; beat on medium speed until combined. Increase speed to high and mix, stopping to scrape down the sides once or twice, until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes.
  • Mix in cocoa powder and vanilla. Add confectioners' sugar gradually on low speed until combined. Increase speed to medium and whip for 1 to 2 minutes.
  • Spread icing on the cooled cake, or store in the refrigerator until cake is fully cooled.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 459.7 calories, Carbohydrate 68.2 g, Cholesterol 80.3 mg, Fat 20 g, Fiber 1.2 g, Protein 4.6 g, SaturatedFat 7.9 g, Sodium 434.6 mg, Sugar 53.3 g

BANANA CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE FROSTING



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Thise cake recipe came from the cookbook that came with a mixer in the early 1950's. The frosting is just a basic 10X sugar frosting.

Provided by GrandmaIsCooking

Categories     Dessert

Time 45m

Yield 16 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 16

2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs, unbeaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup buttermilk or 1/4 cup sour milk
1 cup mashed banana
1 lb powdered sugar (10X)
1/2 cup cocoa
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
3 -4 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Steps:

  • Cream together butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla on high speed of electric mixer for 1 1/2 minutes.
  • Add buttermilk.
  • Mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  • Add flour mixture alternately with mashed banana.
  • Beat only enough to blend, about 2 minutes.
  • Pour battered into 2 greased and floured 9 inch round cake pans and bake in preheated 350 degree (Fahrenheit) oven for 30 to 35 minutes.
  • Cool cake then prepare frosting.
  • Mix together powdered sugar, cocoa and salt.
  • Add gradually to butter, beating with electric mixer, adding just enough milk so that mixture is not stiff (If you add too much it will get too thin when you continue beating).
  • After all ingredients are blended, mix on high speed of your mixer for 3 to 4 minutes, carefully adding small amounts of milk if too thick.
  • Fill and frost cooled layers.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 373.9, Fat 12.7, SaturatedFat 7.6, Cholesterol 57.5, Sodium 276, Carbohydrate 63, Fiber 1.2, Sugar 48, Protein 3.3

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