Banana Cake With Brown Sugar Buttercream

Name: Banana Cake With Brown Sugar Buttercream
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 95 min
Ingredients: CAKE:; 3 cups all purpose flour; 2 cups granulated sugar; 1 tsp baking soda; 2 tsp cinnamon; 1 tsp salt; 3 large eggs (room temp); 1 cup vegetable or canola oil; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 2 cups mashed ripe banana (about 3 large); 1/2 cup milk; BUTTERCREAM:; 9 egg whites; 2 1/4 cups light brown sugar; 1 tsp salt; 6 3/4 sticks butter (3 cups + 6 Tbsp); WALNUT CARAMELS (makes 11:); 22 caramel squares; 1 cup chopped walnuts; GARNISH:; 3/4 cup caramel sauce of choice (I used Sanders)

October 12, 2017 by Stacey 32 Comments

Banana Cake With Brown Sugar Buttercream!! Moist, delicious banana cake combined with my favorite, brown sugar swiss meringue buttercream.

You guys if ever there was a cake to eat this week this is the one. This is the cake to cozy up to as the temps are dropping and the wind is blowing. This is the cake to wait for all the kids to go to sleep, find your favorite place on the couch, maybe a favorite tv show and eat a big slice in peace and quiet or maybe two. This is the cake that could easily replace your standard breakfast because its delightful with tea or coffee. To sum things up… This is the cake!! The Banana Cake With Brown Sugar Swiss Meringue Buttercream.

I get excited to see rotting bananas. And for any of you that love to bake you know exactly what I mean. Because those brown spotted beauties could only mean one thing banana cake (or bread, I love both)!! It means that once the process begins your house is going to smell heavenly and you’re only a little time away from devouring the most dense, comforting, delicious, give me more cake you can imagine.

And because I like to make a great thing even greater, I decided this Banana Cake needed swiss meringue buttercream. But not just any, Brown Sugar Swiss Meringue Buttercream. So two things I must insist upon before we proceed. If you have not tried swiss meringue buttercream you absolutely must! If you have yet to try Brown Sugar Swiss Meringue Buttercream do not wait another day. Both these butter creams are cake life changing and will take you from loving buttercream (standard version) to being in love with buttercream!! It truly is the royalty of buttercream and frosting in my humble (yet over bearing 😉 ) opinion.

And those little toppers, what are they you ask? Delicious caramels rolled in walnuts. Isn’t that what every Banana Cake With Brown Sugar Buttercream needs? I think so.

Looking for that warm comforting cake to take the chill off or maybe you need to eat some emotions this week (shhh, I won’t tell). Then this Banana Cake With Brown Sugar Buttercream recipe is it!!!

Enjoy!

Stacey

Here are some ingredients that helped make this cake superb and they might help you as well!!

Walnuts – one of my favorites, chop them up and roll away.
Caramels – roll them into ball and then roll them in walnuts. Easy!
Caramel Sauce – for that iconic cake caramel drip. I used Sanders which is made here in Michigan.

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