How to Make Banana Cake

Banana Cake How to Make Banana Cake Have you ever tried making banana cake with your leftover bananas? Well, it is the best way to use your ripe bananas. Banana cakes are not only good in taste but also hold nutritional value. Making banana cake is really easy. You can serve it for brunch or even as desert after a meal.

Here are some instructions that will help you to understand how you can prepare a delicious banana cake.

Steps to Make Banana Cake

Take one bowl and mix some Crisco, sugar and beaten eggs. The quantity of each ingredient will differ depending upon the size of the cake you want. However, for every ½ cup of Crisco, you need 1 and ½ cups of sugar and 2 eggs.
Now add some more ingredients to the above prepared mix. Add 1 cup milk, teaspoon vanilla and 1 cup mashed banana. It is always best to use ripe bananas because they add better flavor to the cake.
Take another bowl and sift flour, baking soda and salt. Preferably for 2 cups of flour take 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1teaspoon baking soda, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Now add this mixture to the creamy mix prepared in step 2.
Now pour the prepared batter into a greased baking pan. Make sure to grease at least two, 8 inch round cake pans with flour and butter. Carefully fill both the cake pans with batter to ensure they fill up till the levels and there are no air pockets in the pans.
Allow the batter to bake in a pre-heated oven at 350ºF for 30 to 40 minutes till you are sure that your cake is properly baked. To test whether the cake is ready or not, you can stick a toothpick in the cake and see whether the tooth pick comes out dry or sticky. If it comes out dry it means your cake is ready.

Now that your banana cake is done, prepare icing for the cake that will make your cake lot more attractive and scrumptious. Here is an easy method to make cake icing.

Take some butter that is kept at room temperature and whisk the butter for few minutes in your mixer, with whisk attachment. Opt for high speed.
Now turn the mixer down to slow and add some sugar. Mix on medium speed for few minutes.
Slowly add cream or milk and mix for another 2 minutes.
Now add vanilla and salt and whip the mix on high speed for at least 4 minutes till the icing acquires soft and fluffy texture.

Once your icing is ready, decorate your banana cake with it and make your dish really special. Enjoy it with your banana cake with your family and friends.