The lovely and most awesome Ava recommended this recipe for A-Number-1 Banana Cake at allrecipes.com and I just had to try it out. I had bought a ton of bananas on sale and wanted to do something different with them. So I gave the recipe a shot!
Whisk together the dry ingredients.
Cream butter, white sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs one at a time, make sure each egg is incorporated into the batter very well.
Ava strongly recommended I mash the bananas as finely as I could, this is the best I could do. Add bananas to the batter.
Alternate between adding the dry ingredients and the buttermilk.
Always finish with the dry ingredients. This is a baking cardinal rule!
Ava also recommended adding chocolate chips over the walnuts, no problem! The recipe recommended dividing the dough into two cake pans but Ava said she just uses a large baking sheet and bakes it for 35 minutes and that is exactly what I did too.
This cake was perfect! Super moist, not difficult to make, tasty and fabulous! Obviously I give it five out of five wooden spoons, I liked it that much. I recommend this recipe especially for large families, it makes a TON of cake! So much so that a lot of it went to waste here even though I shared it with friends (it make a LOT of cake). Next time I will just divide the recipe in half.
Thank you so much Ava for this recommendation! I really did love it. It reminded me a lot of banana bread but it was more moist and decadent. The author of the recipe said the batter can be used to make loaves and muffins so I totally agree with him, this is a super versatile recipe. Bravo!
Debra She Who Seeks says
I like the prominence given to the beautiful white plate and silver fork in the first photo. They really enhance the presentation of the cake.
AvaDJ says
Hooray Suzie, so glad it was a hit, your photos look so yummy, the cake got some nice height and baked up so golden. You’re absolutely right, it does feed an army, I take it forgranted when I recommend recipes, because whenever I make this for the 5 of us, it usually disappears pretty darn quick. I do try new banana bread recipes from time to time, but they all seem to disappoint now, this is definitely my favourite and “go to” recipe.
Tammy says
I don’t like bananas. However, I do like banana bread – it is the only “banana flavored” thing I do like… So, I’m thinking I might like this cake! I really like the simplicity of the recipe!
Sarah P says
you said you put it in one large baking sheet – do you mean a “cookie sheet” type pan, or a 13 x 9 cake pan?
Suzie Ridler says
Sarah, I used like a deep brownie pan, I think it was 13 x 9, I’m bad at measurements but that sounds right.