Banana Cake With Pudding Icing
"Easy, one-bowl cake with a divine icing. This is the ULTIMATE banana cake, great way to use ripe bananas, too. The icing makes a lot, but if you're like me, I'm lucky if half of it makes it onto the cake and not in my mouth/lol. Also, great to turn the cake onto a platter, so you can cover the sides with icing, too. If you like bananas, I GUARANTEEE you will LOVE this cake!!"
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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1 nine x thirteen cake
ingredients
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CAKE
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup mashed, ripe banana
- 2 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 cup shortening
- 1 cup sour milk or 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
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ICING
- 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding or (3 1/2 ounce) package banana cream instant pudding
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
directions
- Grease and flour the bottom of a 9x13 cake pan.
- Blend together all cake ingredients and pour into prepared pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 min.
- ,until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Let cool.
- Meanwhile, prepare icing.
- Place all icing ingredients into medium-sized bowl.
- Mix with electric mixer on high speed until icing becomes fluffy and thick enough to spread (this takes a while, about 3-4 min.) Spread on top of cooled cake.
- Refrigerate entire cake for a few hours before serving for best taste, and serve cold.
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Reviews
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I made this cake and enjoyed it very much. I agree that it is more like banana bread than cake, but that was not a problem for me. I made the icing using the banana cream pudding. I followed the directions exactly and did not have any problems. Definitely keep it in the fridge and serve it cold. The frosting does need to be kept cold otherwise it has a weirdness to it. But that's no different than a grocery store cake frosting. All the shortening didn't bother me. I would make this again. -
Just made the icing. I used 2 pkgs vanilla instant pudding mix (102g each). I only had 1/2 cup shortening. I had originally measured out 1 pkg pudding mix, and followed the rest of the recipe exactly except for shortening. Not good. That's why I added the extra pkg pudding mix and a few more splashes of milk (probably 1/2 cup) to help thicken up. It ended up lumpy (due to shortening) and crunchy (because of the sugar granules) It's okay, everyone ate it, but I will NOT make again. -
I thought the cake had a good flavor, but really tasted more like banana bread instead of cake. I did not use the icing recipe due to the fact of the shortening in it. I used a recipe that had instant banana pudding 1 pkg of dream whip & 2 cups of milk. The family thought it was good. -
Lovely cake recipe, but we weren't keen on the icing, next time I'll use a different one, makes a great size cake. -
This cake was really tasty, but I had a problem with all the shortening in the frosting. If I hadn't made it myself, I probably wouldn't have known it was there but I did make it and therefore couldn't fool myself. My husband however, was not bothered and ate all except for my one piece.
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I thought the cake had a good flavor, but really tasted more like banana bread instead of cake. I did not use the icing recipe due to the fact of the shortening in it. I used a recipe that had instant banana pudding 1 pkg of dream whip & 2 cups of milk. The family thought it was good.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Manda
Glen Burnie, MD
I am a single gal, living on my own; currently working as an Occupational Therapist & living in Cumberland, MD. (It is "God's Country" out here...beautiful!) I LOVE to cook and bake, and love anything that looks, tastes, smells, or even closely resembles a veggie. I LOVE moo-cows, and therefore, cannot bring myself to eat any part of the adorable critters (i.e. NO RED MEAT!!)
I love the outdoors, and pride myself on being the master griller on the fire pit.
My mother's side of the family is 100% Polish, so I have an inborn passion for cooking...unfortunately, along with that comes a love of eating, too!! But, hey..u only live once, so I say "EAT, DRINK, and BE MERRY!!!"
