Chocolate Banana Cream Cake Recipe

Chocolate Banana Cream Cake Recipe Chocolate Banana Cream Cake Recipe photo by Taste of Home Rating 5

“My inspiration for this cake came from my desire to create a dessert combining my father’s love for cake, my mother’s love for chocolate and my love for bananas.” It’s divine!

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Chocolate Banana Cream Cake Recipe
  • Prep: 30 min. Bake: 20 min. + cooling
  • Yield: 12 Servings
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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1-1/4 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs, separated
  • 1-1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 3 medium)
  • 1/4 cup sour cream
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • FILLING/FROSTING:
  • 1-1/2 cups cold 2% milk
  • 1 package (3.4 ounces) instant banana cream pudding mix
  • 1 can (16 ounces) chocolate frosting
  • 2 medium firm bananas, sliced
  • 3 tablespoons lemon juice

Directions

  • In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks. Beat in the bananas, sour cream and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture and mix well.
  • In a small bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold into batter. Transfer to two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
  • For filling, in a small bowl, whisk milk and pudding mix for 2 minutes. Let stand for 2 minutes or until soft-set. Cover and refrigerate until chilled.
  • In a small bowl, beat frosting until light and fluffy. Place bananas in a small bowl; toss with lemon juice.
  • Place one cake layer on a serving plate; spread with 3 tablespoons frosting. Stir pudding; spread half over the frosting. Top with half of the bananas and the remaining cake layer. Repeat frosting, filling and banana layers. Frost sides and decorate top edge of cake with remaining frosting. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 12 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 slice equals 490 calories, 20 g fat (10 g saturated fat), 62 mg cholesterol, 459 mg sodium, 74 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 4 g protein.

Originally published as Chocolate Banana Cream Cake in Taste of Home December/January 2010, p49

Tip

Freeze Bananas

Peel and mash overripe bananas with 1 teaspoon of lemon juice for each banana used. Freeze in 1- or 2-cup amounts in airtight containers for up to 6 months. When you do have time to bake, about 1-1/3 cups mashed bananas equals three medium or four small bananas.

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Reviewed on May. 05, 2013 by AngelNP

I made this cake a couple of times and it is delicious!!!!

Reviewed on May. 05, 2013 by AngelNP

I made this cake a couple of times and it is delicious!!!!

Reviewed on Feb. 07, 2012 by fegert

Best cake

Reviewed on May. 12, 2011 by Kayla0110

I made this for my dad's birthday, and I ended up liking it way better than I thought I would, not being a big banana fan. The cake is super moist, the filling is tasty, and I think it has just the right amount of chocolate flavor, although when I make it again I'll make my own chocolate frosting. Canned frosting is handy, but homemade tastes so much better.

Reviewed on Dec. 26, 2010 by kshirelle

Children loved it. Will make again.

Reviewed on Dec. 21, 2010 by BestGramma

Made this for my work party ! Huge hit... Everyone loved it... Going to make it again and again..

Reviewed on Dec. 20, 2010 by alodonoghue

I have made this cake several times now, and everytime it is a hit! And I've never had to worry about the bananas turning brown...it never lasts that long!

Reviewed on Dec. 20, 2010 by joesyoyo

This was an excellent cake and everyone said it was delicious. I thought the cake was "heavy" as specified, and will try to lighten it up a bit next time. I had only one cake pan, so I made a single layer cake, with the bananas and some raisins soaked in Grand Marnier, and also some more liquor in the frosting and pudding. Then added walnut halves for crunch.

Reviewed on Dec. 14, 2010 by foxxy1601

I made this for my fiance and two of our friends, we all LOVED it! It was delicious!

The only problem I had with the recipe was having a hard time getting the stiff peaks with my eggs whites. I looked something up online and figured out it works much better with an egg at room temperature and with a little drop of lemon juice and a small splash of salt. After doing that it worked perfectly!

Reviewed on Dec. 07, 2010 by berumen

My family of 5 loved this cake. I did read the other reviews and chose to limit the chocolate frosting to just the top of cakes and not the sides, and then pulled the pudding to the edge so it could drip down on its own. With that the frosting did not over power the bananas. I did smooth down plastic wrap over the top and sides of my leftovers so no air got to it. I had no problem with lasting till it was gone:)

 
 

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