Michaels Favorite Banana Nut Cake Recipes

BANANA NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch round cake pans.
• Separate the eggs and set aside.
• Stir the baking soda into the buttermilk. Cream 1/2 cup of the butter or margarine with the white sugar. Add the egg yolks, and vanilla, beating well. Add flour alternately with the mashed bananas. Stir in the buttermilk mixture.
• Beat the egg whites until stiff. Stir the pecans into the cake batter then fold in the egg whites. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 25 minutes or until cakes test done. Let cakes cool in pans.
• To Make Icing: Cream 3 tablespoons butter or margarine with the confectioners' sugar. Stir in the heavy cream until well blended. Spread icing on to cooled cake layers. Top with pecan halves if desired.

BANANA NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 10-in. tube pan. In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg. In another bowl, combine eggs, bananas, oil, pineapple and vanilla. Add to flour mixture; stir just until moistened. Fold in nuts. , Pour into prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 60-65 minutes. Cool in pan 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. If desired, dust with confectioners' sugar and serve with whipped cream and additional bananas.Freeze option: Securely wrap cooled cake in foil, then freeze. To use, thaw at room temperature.

MICHAEL'S FAVORITE BANANA NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F; grease and flour 3 9-inch round cake pans; set pans aside.
• Prepare banana nut cake: In large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
• Add eggs and oil, and stir just until dry ingredients are moistened; do not beat.
• Stir in bananas, pecans and vanilla.
• Divide batter equally among prepared pans.
• Bake cake 25-28 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of layers comes out clean.
• Cool layers in pans on wire racks 10 minutes.
• With small metal spatula or knife, loosen layers from sides of pans; invert onto racks to cool completely, about 1 hour.
• While layers are cooling, prepare cream cheese frosting: In medium bowl, with mixer on medium speed, blend together cream cheese and butter.
• Gradually beat in sifted confectioners' sugar, increase speed to medium-high; beat until frosting is light and fluffy, then beat in vanilla.
• Reserve pecans to sprinkle on frosted cake or, if you like, stir into frosting.
• Fill and frost cake, using about 1/2 cup frosting between each layer.

BANANA-NUT CAKE WITH CARAMEL ICING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Combine 1/4 cup sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl and mix in pecans. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in another bowl.
• Beat 1 cup sugar and shortening together with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in banana, eggs, and vanilla extract. Add sour cream and mix until just blended. Add flour mixture and beat until blended.
• Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of sugar-nut mixture into the prepared cake pan. Top with 1/2 of the cake batter. Follow with remaining nut mixture and cake batter.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes in the pan and then turn the cake out onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
• Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add brown sugar and milk. Bring to a boil; continue to boil for 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from heat and add vanilla extract; mix in powdered sugar gradually. Top the cooled cake with the frosting.

PASSOVER BANANA NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325. Lightly grease sides and center of a 10 inch tube pan.
• Separate eggs into large mixing bowls. slowly beat 1 cup sugar and salt into yolks until thick and light in color. Add mashed bananas. Beat for 3 minutes on high speed.
• Stir together cake meal, potato starch and cinnamon. Fold gradually into banana mixture. Add nuts.
• Beat whites till peaked (not dry). Continue beating and make meringue by beating 1/4 cup sugar into whites 1 teaspoon at a time. Fold meringue into banana mixture.
• Bake in pan for 70 to 75 minutes until its springy to touch. invert pan and let hang for 45 minutes. remove while warm with a thin blade.

MA'S BANANA NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Cream sugar and butter.
• Add bananas and eggs, stir well.
• Add sour cream.
• Sift flour and baking soda and add.
• Mix in nuts.
• Pour batter into either greased tube cake pan, 2 round layer cake pans or 9x13 pan.
• Bake approx.
• 1 hr.
• at 325.
• Good with chocolate or cream cheese frosting.

KAY'S BANANA NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Beat eggs until thick.
• Add cake mix, pudding, water, oil, and bananas.
• Beat with electric mixer at medium speed for 10 minutes.
• Add walnuts, mix to incorporate.
• Pour into ungreased bundt pan.
• Bake for 50 minutes.
• Do not remove from pan until cooled.
• Sprinkle for powdered sugar for garnish.