Banana Cream Cake – My Cake College

On this scrumptious dessert, moist banana cake layers are crammed with a heavenly banana cream filling for a Banana Cream Cake that’s certain to carry rave opinions!

In case you love banana muffins, you’re going to love this recipe!

How you can Make Banana Cream Cake

This do-it-yourself cake is tremendous moist and has superb banana taste not solely within the cake layers, however within the banana pastry cream filling and banana cream cheese frosting as properly!

We’re utilizing our favourite scratch banana cake recipe, however in the event you desire to work with cake mixes, now we have an incredible banana cake doctored combine recipe that you would use as an alternative in the event you’d like!

Yow will discover the total, printable banana cream cake recipe additional down on this submit, however here’s a fast rundown of our steps!

1. Preheat: Preheat oven to 350 levels, grease and flour three 8×2 inch spherical pans. We wish to line the underside of the pans with parchment paper. (You might use two 9 inch pans it you should not have 8 inch pans.)
2. Flour Combination: In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt for 30 seconds, put aside.
3. Moist Combination: In one other bowl, add the buttermilk, vanilla and mashed bananas.  Mix and put aside.
4. Butter & Sugar: Within the massive bowl of your mixer, add the marginally softened butter and blend at medium pace till easy. Steadily add the sugar and proceed to combine on medium pace for 3 to five minutes till lightened in shade and fluffy. (We used a stand mixer with paddle attachment)
5. Eggs: Add the room temperature eggs separately mixing till the yellow of the yolk disappears.
6. Alternating Dry & Moist Substances: With the mixer on low pace, alternately add the flour combination and buttermilk combination, starting and ending with the dry elements (3 additions of dry elements and a pair of of liquid.)  Combine simply till properly blended- watch out to not over-mix.
7. Fill the Pans! Pour the cake batter into ready pans and bake for 25 to half-hour. Cake is finished with a toothpick comes out clear or with just some crumbs hooked up.  
8. Flip Out: Cool within the cake pans for five to 10 minutes on a cooling rack earlier than turning out.

Banana Cream Filling

The banana pastry cream filling takes this cake to a complete new stage of deliciousness! It has superb taste and richness.

We made a pastry cream flavored with banana extract and vanilla extract. (In case you should not have banana extract, merely use additional vanilla extract for a scrumptious vanilla pastry cream).

Pastry cream is a luscious vanilla custard that’s ready on the stovetop, and is an easy mixture of sugar, cornstarch, egg yolks, milk, and flavoring (on this case, banana & vanilla extract). 

Up to now, we’ve used variations of this creamy filling in our Boston Cream Pie in addition to our Coconut Cream Cake and completely cherished the outcomes.

Yow will discover our full recipe additional down on this submit, however here’s a fast have a look at our course of!

1. In a medium dimension bowl, whisk the egg yolks and put aside.   In a medium dimension saucepan, mix the sugar, cornstarch and salt, mix collectively.  Steadily stir within the 2 cups of milk.  Cook dinner over medium warmth, stirring continuously to dissolve the sugar. 
2. Simmer.  Take away the saucepan from the warmth.  Spoon ¼ to ½ cup of the new combination into the bowl holding the egg yolks, stir continuously. (You might be tempering the eggs)
3. Pour this combination into the saucepan and whisk continuously. When it begins to thicken, take away from the warmth and add the vanilla extract and banana extract.  Bear in mind the filling will thicken much more because it cools. 
4. Pour pastry cream right into a warmth proof bowl or small casserole dish (for sooner cooling) and let cool a bit. We then pressed plastic wrap in opposition to the cream to stop a pores and skin from forming and refrigerated. The pastry cream ought to be chilled earlier than utilizing.

Banana Cream Cheese Frosting

This banana cream cheese frosting is the perfect! We’ve by no means used banana extract in our cream cheese frosting earlier than this recipe- so, so good!

Plain cream cheese frosting is the proper complement to banana cake, and so in the event you should not have banana extract, merely substitute with vanilla extract and it’ll nonetheless style superb– however in the event you do have banana extract, we expect you’ll adore it!

This cream cheese frosting recipe is a quite simple one–based mostly on our traditional Cream Cheese Frosting recipe. It’s a easy mixture of butter, softened cream cheese, powdered sugar, a pinch of salt, and banana extract (we used McCormick model).

It’s easy, creamy, and pipes completely too.

As with all cream cheese frosting, the consistency is finest when it’s barely chilled.

Cream Cheese Frostings are softer than different buttercream recipes- if it turns into too tender whereas adorning with it, simply chill it for a couple of minutes to agency it up a bit. Similar goes on your cake or the piping bag that you just’re adorning with! The fridge/freezer is your good friend ;0)

Meeting of the Cake

We positioned the primary cake layer on the cake plate or cake pedestal. Subsequent, we piped a dam of banana frosting across the cake layer, about ½ inch from the sting.

I used a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away for this step. The aim of the dam is to maintain the very tender filling from escaping when the layers are stacked.

Subsequent, unfold a layer of banana pastry cream on prime of the cake layer, inside the dam. Prime with the second banana cake layer and repeat the steps for the dam and filling.

Prime with the third cake layer and fill in any remaining gaps between the cake layers with frosting. At this level, I utilized a skinny coat of cream cheese frosting over the edges and prime of the cake, and chilled within the freezer for quarter-hour.

Chilling after the crumb coat is an optionally available step however I discover it very useful for maintaining the whole lot good and agency! It helps to make sure that the layers won’t shift because the cake is embellished.

I added the second layer of frosting and combed across the sides with a cake comb.I added extra pastry cream to the highest heart of the cake, and created slightly spiral utilizing my offset spatula.

I didn’t take the banana cream all the way in which to the sting of the cake– I allowed house for a frosting shell border (piped with a big 1M star tip)

…and right here is our completed cake!

Don’t you simply wish to dive proper in? We hope that you just take pleasure in it!

Extra Banana Muffins to Love

In case you love banana muffins like we do, don’t miss these different favourite recipes as properly! There are such a lot of scrumptious taste combos to attempt. Listed here are just some on your listing!

Hummingbird Cake (and likewise Hummingbird Cake from a Cake Combine)

Banana Break up Cake

Banana Chocolate Chip Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

Banana Pudding Cake

Benefit from the Recipe!

Each banana lover wants this cake recipe- it actually is the perfect banana layer cake!! We predict you’re going to adore it.

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It will be good for therefore many particular events, from birthdays to holidays, picnics, potlucks, and extra. Maintain this recipe in thoughts for the following time you’re craving one thing scrumptious! ;0)

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