Best Banana Sheet Cake Recipe - The How-To Home (2024)

If you're looking for a big cake with a delicious blend of flavors it's time to do a happy dance because you are at the right place. This is the best banana sheet cake recipe I have ever tasted.

It's easy to make and can be topped with brown butter frosting or a rich cream cheese frosting and because it's a sheet cake, it's perfect for large gatherings.

This easy banana cake is the perfect recipe to make any time you have some extra ripe bananas in the house and don't feel like making the usual, albeit delicious, banana bread (this is my favorite recipe!). It's packed with just the right amount of banana flavor and may be the moistest cake you've ever made.

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🍌Ingredients

• granulated sugar
• sour cream
• unsalted butter
• large eggs
• overripe bananas
• vanilla extract
• all purpose flour
• baking soda
• salt

Browned Butter Frosting

• butter
• powdered sugar
• vanilla extract
• milk or half and half

See recipe card for quantities for the above.

Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting

• 1 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
• ½ cup butter, softened
• 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 ¾ cups confectioners' sugar

📋Instructions

This is an overview of the instructions. Thefull recipeand instructions as well as nutritional information can be found in therecipe cardat the bottom of the page.

• Heat oven to 375 degrees.
• Grease and flour 10x15 jelly roll pan or sheet pan of the same dimensions.
• Place first four ingredients in a large mixing bowl and use an electric mixer with the paddle attachment to beat on high speed until creamy.
• Blend in mashed bananas and vanilla and using paddle attachment to beat on medium speed for one minute.
• In a small bowl stir together flour, baking soda and salt.
• Add the dry ingredients flour mixture to banana mixture and blend on low speed for one additional minute.
• Spread banana cake batter in prepared pan.
• Bake time of 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown.

• Remove from oven and place pan on wire rack and frost the top of the cake with frosting once it has reached room temperature.

Browned Butter Frosting

• Heat butter in saucepan over medium heat past the melting point until it is boiling and light brown.
• Remove from the heat and immediately add the remaining ingredients. This should be thicker than a glaze, and thinner than frosting.
• Smooth over the top of the banana sheet cake immediately.
• Serve!

Cream Cheese Frosting

In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla. Gradually beat in enough confectioners' sugar to achieve desired consistency. Frost cake. Store in the refrigerator.

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📖 Variations

• I've given the recipe for browned butter frosting and cream cheese icing but no matter which kind of frosting you use, this cake is delicious. p.s. You could also use a caramel frosting for an additional layer of flavor.
• Is chocolate your thing? If so, you can add 1 cup of chocolate chips as the last step using a rubber spatula to gently fold them into the batter before pouring it into the jelly roll pan.
• Top with sliced bananas and nuts if desired.

🍽Equipment

10 x 15 inch Jelly roll pan or rimmed baking sheet or whatever bakeware you normally use to make a regular sheet cake.

Hand Mixer or Electric Mixer - I love my KitchenAid cordless hand mixer. It's very convenient and stays charged throughout my mixing process...and even though mine is black, I especially love it in the new Magnolia Home color!

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🍱Storage

Cover cake with foil or plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator. To keep the covering from sticking to the icing, stick toothpicks at regular intervals and then cover with foil or plastic wrap. It's an old trick but it works great!

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