The Best Banana Cake Recipe Collection

A Collection of Best Banana Cake Recipe - With A Twist

There are so many wonderful variations to making beautiful and delicious cakes from bananas. From baked banana cakes to steamed banana cakes, the type of recipes and methods available for making a fantastic cake are endless.

At this site, I like to categorize the banana cake recipes into baked cakes and steamed cakes. You'll find that the bake cake recipes are more Western skewed ie. in terms of ingredients available, and the steamed cake recipes, more Asian skewed.

Now, for the baked banana cakes category, many people have asked why I differentiate the baked banana cakes from baked banana breads (quick breads), when the recipes are almost similiar. In actual truth, there is no difference in terms of banana cake and banana breads other than terminology. I do it simply because the "making process" for the baked cakes are little more elaborate ie. it involves creating special toppings or layers to make the cake more "gourmet-like". That's all.

Now, many people fail to bake the “perfect” cake even with the best recipe. There are many reasons to this. Firstly, it could be due to inaccurate measurements. Unlike cooking a dish or making soup, where you can use estimates (like how our mothers used to cook), you need to follow standardized measurements for cake recipes.

Here’s how you measure. For dry ingredients, stir the ingredient in its container with a fork to aerate it, then dip the measuring cup to scoop the ingredient. Level the cup off with the flat side of a knife. For liquid ingredients, fill the ingredient to the eye level of the cup.

Secondly, the type of ingredients used for the cake is also equally important. The type of flour (all-purpose flour or cake flour), milk (whole or buttermilk), butter (salted or unsalted), sugar (brown, granulated or castor) and eggs (size) can make a big difference to how well the cake will turn out.

Another essential part of making the perfect cake is the oven temperature. Any alteration on the prescribed temperature may cause slight imperfections to the final product.

For the ingredients, I like using soft butter instead of melted butter because if the butter begins to lose its shape or is melted, the cake tends to be heavy. Also, try using unsalted butter as it it gives the cake a fuller, richer and sweeter flavor. For sugar, use castor sugar instead of ordinary granulated sugar as it gives the cake a slightly finer texture.

Hopefully with this best banana cake recipe collection and basic baking tips, you are a step closer to making the best banana cake.

Baked Banana Cake Recipes