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When I was just a teenager I worked at Little Caesar’s (pizza!pizza!). One of my favorite things was to work Sundays, when it was a little slower. Our pizza place was in a strip mall and my boss would always send one of us down to the Walgreen’s next door for some of the 2/$1 bags of candy. Then she would send someone else to the Sara Lee Outlet next door to buy some individual snack cakes.
She would buy these delicious Banana cakes and we would keep them in the freezer! OMG they were so yummy!
I decided it was time to recreate those snack cakes. Only, I made mine much thinner.
Why, you ask? Well, as good as they would be baked up thick, I prefer a better frosting to cake ratio!
You could bake these in a 13×9 baking dish if you’d like them thicker (just adjust your baking time)…or keep them thin like I do and bake them in a 15×10 baking sheet.
Either way, make sure you top them with this creamy vanilla bean frosting!
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Delicious, moist banana cakes frosted with creamy vanilla bean frosting!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 3 medium bananas
- 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 4 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup skim milk
Instructions
- For the cake, beat butter and sugar until creamy, about 3-4 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla bean paste. Add in bananas, beating until smooth and mashed. Add in flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Pour batter into a greased and floured 15x10 baking sheet. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 18-22 minutes. Remove and cool completely.
- For the frosting, beat butter with vanilla paste, powdered sugar and milk until creamy (about 5 minutes). Spread over cooled cake, cut into large slices. ENJOY!
- **if you don't have vanilla bean paste, you can substitute vanilla extract or one vanilla bean
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Love your new look!
Oh I love your new look! and i love this recipe! I will be bookmarking this to make later! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Pamela!!!
I love banana anything – especially little bars or a little snack cake like this. Perfect for ripe bananas!
You are the banana baking queen Averie!
I am with Averie…I heart all baked goods with banana in them! This frosting sounds very yummy! And I totally agree with your cake to frosting ratio:-)
Totally necessary, right?
I think I need a pin it board just for banana cakes. Oh my this sounds yummy! yummy!
I have so many pin boards, but I had been contemplating one just for bananas
Aimee! I love love love loved sundays when I was a waitress – it was SO slow and so glorious. Boring at times, but it was just fun to sit around and have fun with my coworkers and play around.
If I had cakes like these, it would make it even BETTER. I love banana anything. I’ve never made a banana snack cake before, though. That frosting looks and sounds INCREDIBLE!
Thanks Sally! I hope you try it!!
Ooooh, these banana bars look yummo! I love vanilla bean paste and have some on hand! I need to make these soon.
I really like your new blog look, too!
Blessings,
Leslie
Leslie, I LOVE vanilla bean paste, so glad you have some on hand!!! Thanks for the sweet words on my blog design!!
I read this and had all the ingredients so of course I had to make it tonight. I never had the Sara Lee snack cakes, but had a vague memory of Little Debbie having them. As soon as I smelled the batter, it came to me. Banana Twins! It’s in the oven now and smells SO good!
OOooooh banana twins!!! YES!! Hope you are enjoying some cake for breakfast!
As soon as I saw this photo I thought “I love that there is as much frosting as cake”! I like the way you think
Is there any other way?
I think I will have few leftover bananas soon..
I like how you think. . .a proper frosting to cake ratio is important!
Thanks for mentioning my banana cake!
I prefer lots of frosting on my cakes too. It just make the cake so much better!
Oh my heavens. Banana snack cake is one of my favorites!! I remember as a kid my parents would sometimes take us to Smart and Final to get the huge banana sheet cake. I gobbled it all up and maybe snuck in a few extra bites of cake when they weren’t looking
this looks awesome!
Thanks Hayley!! Love those childhood memories
Cake should always be allowed to be snacks.
Especially yummy banana ones like this!!
i love banana cake… these are perfect little snack cakes
Mmm. When I was a kid, banana was my favorite flavor and even now, I find myself gravitating to anything banana flavored.
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Amazing post, as usual… I can’t wait to bake it this weekend
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