Vegan Banana Cake – Chocolate Coated Katie

In the event you like do-it-yourself banana bread, you’ll completely fall in love with this delicate and moist frosted vegan banana cake recipe!

The very best vegan banana cake recipe

With a lightweight and fluffy texture and two complete bananas packed inside, it’s every little thing you can ever need in a banana cake.

The wealthy caramelized banana taste is out of this world scrumptious!

There’s only a third cup of sugar in all the two layer cake. And the recipe may be oil free, dairy free, egg free, gluten free, nut free, refined sugar free, low calorie, low fats, and naturally vegan.

Additionally make this Vegan Carrot Cake

Watch the banana cake recipe video above

Vegan banana bread cake components

You’ll need the next components: banana, water, baking soda, salt, baking powder, pure vanilla extract, flour, vinegar, sweetener, optionally available vegetable or coconut oil, and optionally available cinnamon.

The recipe works with spelt flour, white all goal flour, and a few manufacturers of all goal gluten free flour. Now we have not examined it with complete wheat flour, pastry flour, coconut flour, or almond flour. A cake made with oat flour tastes nice however is denser.

To make a banana spice cake, add a teaspoon of floor ginger, half a teaspoon of floor nutmeg, cloves, and allspice. Improve the cinnamon to a full tablespoon.

For a chocolate chip peanut butter banana cake, substitute an equal quantity of softened peanut butter for the oil. Stir half a cup (or extra) of standard measurement or mini chocolate chips in with the dry components. High with chocolate frosting.

Be at liberty to make use of your favourite all goal granulated sweetener, comparable to common sugar, unrefined coconut sugar or evaporated cane juice. Or use xylitol or granulated erythritol for added sugar free choices. I’ve not tried a liquid sweetener (like pure maple syrup) nor stevia right here so can’t vouch for both of these substitutions.

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Vegan hummingbird cake

Conventional hummingbird cake is a candy banana pineapple cake with cinnamon, pecans, and cream cheese icing. Initially from Jamaica, it’s also common within the southern United States.

To show this wholesome vegan banana cake into a real basic hummingbird cake, you’ll be able to substitute a 3rd cup of the mashed banana within the recipe beneath with an equal quantity of canned finely crushed pineapple.

Drain the crushed pineapple earlier than utilizing, double the cinnamon, and don’t neglect to incorporate the crushed pecans!

High this do-it-yourself hummingbird cake together with your favourite cream cheese frosting or my easy vegan cream cheese frosting recipe beneath. It’s additionally nice with caramel frosting.

Whereas the oven is scorching, bake this basic Apple Bread

Easy methods to make the wholesome banana cake

Preheat your oven to 350 levels Fahrenheit. Grease or line two spherical or sq. eight inch pans (or one 9 by 13 inch pan) with parchment paper.

Whisk all liquid components collectively, together with the banana. You possibly can even do that the night time earlier than (masking and refrigerating after mixing) in the event you want to save time.

Stir all remaining components into the liquid combination till simply evenly combined. For finest cake texture and to keep away from dense outcomes, it’s vital to not overmix baked items that comprise gluten.

Easy the banana cake batter evenly into the ready pans. Place the pans subsequent to one another on the preheated oven’s middle rack.

Bake the muffins for thirty minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the middle of a cake comes out largely clear. Let cool, then go across the sides of the pan with a knife earlier than inverting every cake onto a plate.

If you wish to keep away from cake crumbs getting throughout your icing, let the muffins cool earlier than frosting. With baking typically, I usually make muffins the day earlier than to make sure they’re not heat when including the frosting.

Simple vegan frosting recipe

This banana bread cake tastes great topped with retailer purchased or do-it-yourself vegan vanilla frosting, Coconut Butter, and even Coconut Whipped Cream.

Whereas not tremendous wholesome, each Duncan Hines and Pillsbury cream cheese frostings are unintentionally vegan and work if you’re in a rush.

Or go together with the next vegan cream cheese frosting recipe:

Beat room temperature 8 oz cream cheese (comparable to Tofutti or Dealer Joes vegan) or do-it-yourself Vegan Cream Cheese with 4 oz butter (comparable to plant primarily based Soften or Earth Stability) or coconut butter, 2 cups powdered sugar, and 1 tsp of pure vanilla extract.

Add slightly nondairy milk of alternative as wanted. It’s also possible to stir in a fourth teaspoon of cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg and cloves if you want.

This fluffy vegan cream cheese frosting recipe yields about two cups of frosting. I used about half a cup of the dairy free frosting on every of the layers of the vegan banana cake within the photographs.

Baking with gram measurements

In the event you want to make use of grams as a substitute of the cup measurements within the recipe field beneath, listed below are the quantities to make use of:

240 grams every of water and flour, 15 grams of pure vanilla extract, 22 grams of vinegar, 60 grams of oil or peanut butter, 65 grams of sugar, and 240 grams of mashed banana after peeling, or two bananas.

Additionally bear in mind so as to add the opposite components (salt, baking soda, baking powder).

The recipe was tailored from this Vegan Cake and from my Banana Muffins.

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