Old Fashioned Banana Cake With Cooked Brown Sugar Frosting

Banana Bundt Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze – Thick and soft banana cake with a tender buttery crumb, topped with a decadent Chocolate-brown Sugar Glaze. The BEST Banana Block Always!

This here is the only banana block recipe you lot will need from now until the end of fourth dimension. This is the All-time banana cake I take always (I mean, ever!) sunk my teeth into.

Annotation: I now buy bananas, ban my family from consuming them, then wait for them to ripen so I tin immediately broil this block.

Too to exist noted, I might need to motion up one pants size if this assistant block habit doesn't quit. Wah.

Prefer a sheet cake? Try this Banana Block topped with vanilla frosting.

Adopt a different flavor? Try this Pumpkin Bundt Cake.

Slice of banana bundt cake with brown sugar glaze.

I have been on a search for the perfect banana cake for months. I went back and forth about whether it should be a sheet cake or a bundt cake. What should I top information technology with? Cream cheese frosting? Brown sugar glaze? Chocolate? Decisions, decisions.

All my testing landed me on this recipe, which comes from the vivid Dorie Greenspan.

Banana Bundt Block

I made very few changes to the cake recipe itself, and I would call it perfect. Nearly ii cups of mashed bananas add the banana flavor, sour cream adds wet and balances out the sweet, vanilla extract compliments the bananas, and the right amount of butter creates a tender crumb. See what I said near perfect?

I resisted the urge to add cinnamon or chocolate chips in order to really permit the bananas to shine. I am so, and then, happy with how this cake turned out. Its flavour and consistency are spot on.

This cake can admittedly hold its own every bit-is, without the brown sugar glaze. You can serve it obviously, dusted with powdered sugar, or with a smear of salted butter. Merely, because I am a "more is more than" type of girl, I went ahead and whipped up a brown sugar glaze to cascade over this beautiful Banana Bundt Block.

Brown Carbohydrate Coat

This quick and easy glaze is made with butter, chocolate-brown sugar and vanilla. It tastes like carmel-praline-chocolate-brown sugar heaven. It slowly drips down the sides of the block, blanket each seize with teeth with sweet and buttery deliciousness. The glaze firms up speedily, which ways y'all don't take to look besides long before diving in.

Bonus: the glaze also acts like mucilage if you lot choose to garnish your cake with chopped walnuts or pecans.

Banana Bundt Cake topped with Brown Sugar Glaze and Walnuts

Now, what are you lot waiting for? You know you want a piece of this cake. Broil, consume, share and enjoy.

P.South. There's bananas in it, and so information technology can totally be eaten for breakfast, right? Morn, noon, or night – I will never, always plough downward a slice of this beauty.

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Banana Cake on a white platter,

Block:

▢ iii cups all purpose flour
▢ 2 teaspoons baking soda
▢ ½ teaspoon salt
▢ 1 loving cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
▢ ane ⅔ cups granulated saccharide
▢ 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
▢ 2 big eggs
▢ i ¾ cups mashed very ripe bananas, approx 4 bananas
▢ ane cup sour cream, I used calorie-free

Brownish Sugar Icing:

▢ ¼ cup unsalted butter, cutting into cubes
▢ ½ loving cup brown saccharide, packed
▢ 2 tablespoons milk
▢ ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
▢ ¾ cup powdered saccharide
▢ ¼ loving cup chopped toasted walnuts or pecans

Block:

Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, combine flour, blistering soda and common salt. Prepare aside.
With a hand mixer or stand mixer fitted with a paddle zipper, beat butter until smooth and creamy. Add sugar and beat for another minute, at medium speed, scraping down the bowl as necessary. Add vanilla, so beat in 1 egg at a fourth dimension. Mix in bananas (the mixture might curdle, that'southward ok).
Add one-half of the dry ingredients, sour cream, and then the remaining dry ingredients, mixing between each addition.
Thoroughly grease a 12-cup bundt pan and add the batter to the pan. Rap the pan on the counter a couple times (to remove air bubbles), then smooth out the top. Bake for 55-65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Loosely cover the cake with foil if information technology starts to get dark (this was around xxx minutes for me). Place the pan on a wire rack until it is cool enough to handle, so carefully unmold the block and place it dorsum on the rack to absurd completely.

Icing:

In a pocket-sized saucepan combine butter, brown sugar and milk. Bring to a simmer, whisking frequently and cook until the sugar is dissolved, a infinitesimal or 2. Remove from the heat and cool for 5 minutes.
Add vanilla, whisking to combine. Add powdered sugar ¼ cup at a time, whisking vigorously, until you reach your desired consistency. The icing volition start to firm upwardly apace so take the cake cooled and fix. Drizzle the icing over the cake and immediately sprinkle with nuts. The icing will set in a matter of minutes.