Easy Frosted Banana Cake
Made easy using Box cake mix and very ripe bananas. The frosting only has 2 ingredients, one of which is Jell-O Instant Pudding. It's such a light & refreshing cake perfect for summer.
Equipment
- large mixing bowl
- medium mixing bowl
- small mixing bowl
- 9 x 13 baking dish
- electric hand mixer or whisk
Ingredients
- 1 (15.25oz) box white cake mix
- plus ingredients listed on back of box (you can substitute milk in place of water and melted butter in place of the oil for more bakery style cake).
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 3 medium very ripe bananas, mashed up
Frosting
- 1 (5oz) box vanilla flavored Jell-O instant pudding mix
- 1 1/2 cups cold milk
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray with cooking spray and dust with flour a 9" x 13" baking dish.
- In a large bowl mix together with a whisk or electric hand mixer for 2 minutes dry cake mix, ingredients listed on back of cake mix box, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and mashed bananas.NOTE: don't forget you can switch out milk for the water, and melted butter for the oil as an option for a more bakery style cake.
- Pour cake batter into prepared baking dish and bake in preheated oven for 40 – 45 minutes.NOTE: this is a very wet batter and will need the full time. Cake should be golden brown, pulling away from sides of dish, and a toothpick inserted into middle of cake should come out clean (or a few dry crumbs is fine). Cool cake completely.
While cake is cooking start making the pudding part of the frosting.
- In a medium bowl whisk together pudding and milk (listed in ingredients for the pudding). NOTE: do not use the amount listed on back of pudding box as that will be too much milk for this recipe.
- Place pudding in refrigerator until cake has cooled.
- In a small bowl whisk heavy whipping cream until soft peaks have formed. Fold whipped topping into set pudding until well combined.NOTE: we are not adding any sweetener to the whipping cream, since the pudding is already sweet.
- Frost cooled cake evenly. Enjoy.
