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Banana Cake Recipes

By Food & Wine Updated December 21, 2016
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From layer cakes to banana pudding cakes, here are Food & Wine's best banana cake recipes.
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Banana Layer Cake with Mascarpone Frosting

Banana Layer Cake with Mascarpone Frosting
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Mascarpone is an Italian cheese that's superrich, delicate and creamy. Here, it's simply blended with confectioners' sugar to create a sublime, snow-white frosting. For the best results, try to buy mascarpone that's very fresh.

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Maple-Bourbon Banana Pudding Cake

Maple-Bourbon Banana Pudding Cake
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While this delicious, simple cake bakes, a sweet, rich sauce forms in the bottom of the dish.

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Banana Cake

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This simple banana cake recipes is easy to make and perfect for any occasion.

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Sour Cream-Banana Toffee Crumb Cake

Sour Cream-Banana Toffee Crumb Cake
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This crumb cake is perfect for dessert or as a sweet breakfast treat.

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Banana Cakes with Rum Sauce

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This elegant dessert has great banana flavor and a sweet rum sauce.

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Black Sesame Chocolate-Banana Loaf Cakes

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Blogger Sarah Bolla of Lemon Fire Brigade uses oil and silken tofu to create these deliciously moist, grown-up, dairy-free cakes.

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Banana-Walnut Coffee Cake Muffin Tops

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These banana muffin tops taste slightly grown-up, thanks to the hit of espresso powder.

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Roasted Banana-and-Macadamia Pudding Cake

Roasted Banana-and-Macadamia Pudding Cake
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"With the English influence here in Kenya, there's a huge amount of pudding," explains Hubert Des Marais of this equatorial spin on the classic British dessert. To keep as many ingredients of African origin as possible, he suggests spiking the honey cream with Amarula Cream, an intensely sweet South African liqueur made from the marula fruit—said to be a favorite snack of grazing elephants.

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Chocolate-Peanut-Butter-Banana Upside-Down Cake

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Grace Parisi uses one of the world's great flavor combinations for her unusual marble cake topped with bananas, which caramelize on the bottom of the pan (ideally a glass one).

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