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This easy to make banana cake is bursting with delicious, warm, cozy fall flavors and topped with scrumptious buttercream frosting.

I wanted to do a post with bananas, so immediately I thought I’d do banana bread. But, that changed when I ran across this banana spice cake recipe in my Treasures From Heaven Cookbook. I hope you enjoy it as much me and my neighbors and I did.

Banana Spice Cake With Buttercream Frosting

Old Fashioned Banana Cake For Fall

I always knew cinnamon was tasty with bananas. However, I never thought of other fall flavors as going with bananas until I made this banana spice cake. Autumn flavors like nutmeg and cloves go with pumpkin and sweet potatoes. Who knew they would match up so well with bananas?

This cake is a combination of banana bread and spice cake. Like banana bread, ripe brown bananas are used and like spice cake, rich, bold fall spices are used. The taste of bananas fused with these spices is phenomenal. It’s then taken to a greater taste level when topped with creamy buttercream frosting.

This cake, like banana bread, is easy to whip up. It can be made as a 13×9 sheet cake or a 9×9 or 8×8 layer cake. So make it for snacking, breakfast, brunch or a birthday party. It also freezes well, so make ahead and save the leftovers.

No matter if this cake is just for snak’n, brunch’n or party’n, it is just perfect for your fall recipe collection. In fact, it’s so good you’ll, probably add it to your year round recipe collection.

Easy Banana Spice Cake Ingredients

cake flour sifted
sugar
baking powder
salt
cinnamon
baking soda
nutmeg
cloves
shortening
buttermilk
bananas
eggs

Buttercream Frosting Ingredients

unsalted butter
vanilla
powdered sugar
milk

Banana Spice Cake Recipe

Sift dry ingredients into large mixing bowl.
Add shortening , buttermilk and mashed bananas and mix.
Add eggs.
Turn batter into pan and bake 30 to 40 minute.
Cool for 20 minutes or until it’s cool enough to frost.
Frost with buttercream frosting.

Simple Buttercream Frosting Recipe

Cream butter and gradually add powdered sugar.
Beat in vanilla extract.
Frost Cake

How to ripen bananas quickly for baking

So, you want to make banana spice cake, banana bread or banana muffins, but you have perfectly yellow, with no brown, bananas. Never fear, this post from Allrecipes gives 3 ways of ripening bananas quickly.

Paper Bag Ripening – Will take 1 – 3 days. Put the bananas in a brown paper bag and place them on top of the fridge or another warm location ( I placed some in a warm car). Check the bananas daily until they’re brown enough for baking. The more yellow or green the bananas the longer they will take to ripen.
Bake Them In The Oven – Bake at 300 degrees on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking sheet. With space between the unpeeled bananas, place them on a baking sheet. Bake the bananas for 30 minutes and check them every 15 minutes to see if they’re brown enough for baking. It will take under-ripe bananas longer to ripen in the oven.
Ripen In The Microwave – With a knife or fork poke the unpeeled bananas all over. On a paper towel or plate, microwave them on high for 30 seconds at a time, repeating until they are brown enough for baking.

Final Thoughts On This Banana Spice Cake

This easy to make banana cake is dressed up with all of fall’s bold spices and topped with a creamy buttercream frosting. It’s just bursting with delicious autumn flavor. Make sure you bake it and try it this fall.

In case you have any queries regarding the recipe feel free to reach out via the comment section or the contact page. Also, if you have tried this recipe, I would love to hear about your experiences.

I have linked to our related recipes below and I’m sure you will love them.

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