Very moist cake; great as a snack! Use bananas that are starting to turn black.
Original recipe makes 1 9-inch square cake
Ingredients
1 cup superfine sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup sour cream
1 cup mashed ripe banana
1 1/2 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Topping:
1 cup chopped pecans
3 tablespoons brown sugar, or more to taste
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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PREP
20 mins
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COOK
45 mins
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READY IN
1 hr 5 mins
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch square baking dish.
- Beat superfine sugar and butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Add eggs one at a time, beating until each egg is fully incorporated before adding the next. Mix baking soda into sour cream in another bowl and stir into butter mixture until combined.
- Stir bananas into butter mixture; add cake flour and baking powder and mix well. Stir in vanilla extract. Pour banana cake batter into prepared baking dish.
- Mix pecans, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a bowl; sprinkle over cake batter.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes.
Nutrition
Calories: 313 kcal
Carbohydrates: 40.1 g
Cholesterol: 58 mg
Fat: 16.3 g
Fiber: 1.8 g
Protein: 3.8 g
Sodium: 216 mg