Banana Crater Cake Lightened Up Version Recipes

THE BEST EASY CAKE RECIPE: CRATER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350°F
• Cream together room temperature butter and sugar with a hand mixer or with the paddle attachment of your stand mixer. Add beaten eggs and beat this mixture until smooth. Add vanilla and mashed bananas. Mix again until smooth.
• Sift flour, powder, and baking soda. Add this dry mixture to the banana mixture, alternating with sour cream. (I add a scoop of dry mixture, a scoop of sour cream, and keep mixing and repeating until all ingredients are used up)
• Pour half the cake batter into a greased 9 x 13 pan. Combine cinnamon and brown sugar. Sprinkle half the mixture over batter in pan. Top with half the chocolate chips. Repeat, so you have two layers of cake and two layers of the cinnamon/brown sugar/chocolate (this will be your top layer).
• Bake @ 350 for 50-55 minutes, until the center of the cake is set.

BANANA CRATER CAKE (LIGHTENED UP VERSION)

Steps:

• Cream together butter, oil and sugar.
• Add beaten eggs and beat until smooth.
• Add vanilla and mashed bananas. Mix until smooth.
• Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder and 1 tsp cinnamon and blend well.
• Add dry ingredients to banana mixture, alternating with yogurt, ending with dry ingredients.
• Pour half the batter into a greased or parchment paper lined 9" x 13" pan.
• Combine cinnamon and brown sugar. Sprinkle half of mixture over the batter in pan.
• Top with half the chocolate chips.
• Repeat layers.
• Bake at 350 F for 45 to 50 minutes.

BANANA SNACKING CAKE WITH SALTED CARAMEL GLAZE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-by-9-inch pan, and then line with parchment paper, letting the two long ends hang over the edges by at least 2 inches.
• In a large bowl, whisk together flour, granulated sugar, baking soda and salt. Whisk in bananas, melted butter, sour cream, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla.
• Scrape into baking pan and smooth the top. Bake until the top springs back when lightly pressed in the center, and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Let cool completely.
• When cake is cool, make the glaze: In a medium or large pot (not a small one because the mixture will bubble up), combine butter, brown sugar, heavy cream and salt. Bring to a full boil and continue to boil over medium heat for 1 minute. Remove from heat and let sit for 5 minutes.
• Whisk in confectioners' sugar until smooth, then immediately pour over cooled cake. Spread evenly across cake and let set for at least 30 minutes. Sprinkle with flaky sea salt before serving.

FLUFFY BANANA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch layer cake pans. Sift together flour, baking powder, soda, and salt; set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine the shortening, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Beat well. Blend in the buttermilk. Add sifted flour mixture alternately with mashed banana to the egg mixture while beating. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake cake for 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from pans, and cool on wire racks. Fill and frost the cake with whipped cream.

CRATER BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Cream together butter and sugar.
• Add eggs and beat until smooth.
• Add vanilla and bananas.
• Mix well till smooth.
• Sift flour, baking powder and baking soda.
• Add to banana mixture alternately with sour cream, ending with dry ingredients.
• Pour half of the batter into 9 x 13-inch pan.
• Combine cinnamon and brown sugar.
• Sprinkle 1/2 of this mixture over batter in pan.
• Top with 1/2 of the chocolate chips.
• Repeat layers.
• Bake in 350F oven for 45 - 50 minutes.

BANANA SOUR CREAM CAKE - LIGHT VERSION

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*. While the oven is preheating, mix the first 5 ingredients together in a mixing bowl for 2 1/2 minutes. Pour into a cake pan that has been sprayed with pan spray, and bake for approx. 30 minutes.
• While cake is baking, whip the ICBINB - Light and the whipped cream cheese together for about 2 minutes, then add vanilla and powdered sugar and blend well. After cake cools, spread frosting over the top.
• I cut this cake into 24 pieces. Nutrition Information PER PIECE: 166 calories, 4.5 grams of fat, 30 grams carbohydrates. It tastes very rich, and will satisfy a sweet tooth without wrecking your meal plan.

BANANA UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 2 (8 inch) pans. Combine butter and brown sugar, divide and spread evenly between the 2 pans. Sprinkle pecans evenly over both brown sugar mixtures, arrange banana slices evenly over each.
• Prepare cake mix according to package instructions. Divide batter into the 2 pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Turn cakes upside down on a platter or plate, gently tap bottom and carefully remove pans, replacing caramel mixture that sticks to pan.