This banana cake is probably the moistest cake we have ever made - short of outright flops. It walks the edge between a cake and an old-fashioned English pudding, absolutely silky with banana and gooey streaks of caramel that create strata of even moister cake layered with that burnt, brown sugary richness.
It's perfectly fine served on its own, with no topping other than a light dusting of confectioner's sugar. Or you can fold leftover caramel sauce into whipped cream for an even richer treat.
Caramel Banana Cake
2 9-inch layers
3/4 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
3 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups milk
1 1/2 cups mashed bananas
1 1/2 cups caramel sauce
Heat oven to 325F. Grease two 9" cake pans.
Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy then add the eggs and beat until silky and lightened. Sift the flour with the baking soda and salt. Whisk the milk and mashed bananas in a separate measuring cup and add to the eggs and butter, alternating with the flour. Beat just until smooth.
Pour batter into the prepared pans. Pour half the caramel sauce into each pan, and swirl with a knife. The pans will be quite full. Put in the oven carefully and bake for about 60 minutes, or until the centers are set and a knife comes out clean.
Cool completely before serving.
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Be. Still. My. HEART. I have ALL of those ingredients at my house right now. Curse this 9 to 5, keeping me from my kitchen!
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Mmmm, delish!!!
view katie's profile
:O
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I just made this today and took it into work. It was a hit! It's SOOOOO yummy! Warning though, while it says the pans will be quite full, it ain't lying! The batter overflowed in my oven! Next time I will put the pans on a cookie sheet or something!
view UptownGirl's profile
Oh lord. I've got everything but the caramel sauce.
Must go home...NOW...
view Jim of ChewOnThat's profile
this cake looks amazing! I keep coming back to it. I will have to give in and make it!
view kkbutler's profile
I baked this cake and it was delicious.
It's easy to make, looks great and tastes even better:)
my boss broke his no-sugar diet for this cake:)
I can't wait to make it again!
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I tried it last night and it was yummy! What a great new way to make banana cakes. The lady at the market who gives me her overly ripe bananas for free was really impressed.
Thanks a lot!
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Just wanted to mention that I made this cake last weekend for a friend's birthday, and it was quite highly complemented. Being a novice cake-baker, I was pleased to find that the textures and flavors were not difficult to manage.
The caramel sauce came out so much better than I was expecting - although I had some difficulty getting an accurate reading with my candy thermometer (not enough depth to the liquid for it to cover the reading point) - I shied away from the full 380 degrees F and took it off heat around 340 according to my measurement.
Anyway, all was well! I'm very tempted to do cupcakes for another friend's return from traveling.
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