We all love an easy recipe that tastes like you have been working in the kitchen for days!
Wacky cake recipes are one bowl mixes with no mixers required
No eggs or dairy and no weird ingredients like egg replacers that you probably can’t find either!
This is the original depression era cake with all the ingredients you already have in your pantry
An abundance of bananas in the freezer was the inspo for this Wacky Banana Cake
Since I was getting really tired of making banana breads!
I changed it up a bit and baked the batter into little logs with this Twinkie knockoff pan
Next I baked the rest of the batter into baby bundts with this miniature bundt pan from Wilton*not sponsored
Looking like flower planters so of course the spring flower assortment on top is perfection!
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, how amazing is this for Mom?
I spread a small amount of chocolate buttercream on the tops
Dipped them into some green tea cake crumbs I had leftover from the Green Tea Cake I made last month!
Of course the making of the buttercream flowers is a project that takes some time and some skill
So if simple is more your style and you really don’t want to get into preparing a recipe of buttercream
Then just bake all the cake batter into a 9″X 13″ pan and glaze it up with a simple sugar glaze once it’s semi-cooled!
Rum or no rum this cake is so easy and so delicious!
For the Rum Glaze
2 cups of Confectioners Sugar, 1 tablespoon of Plant Milk , I usually use almond or soy milk for the glaze.
More Rum *(or more plant milk) about 2 Tablespoons to adjust the consistency for pouring over the warm cake like I did in the original video from last year
Wacky Cake Banana Recipe
If you watched the YouTube video for how I made this cake recipe you will know I did it wrong!! The recipe instructions listed below are correct!!
Ingredients
- Super Ripe Bananas 2 medium approx 240g
- Vegetable or Coconut Oil 7 Tablespoons (98g)
- Brown Sugar 1 cup (200g)
- Plant Milk *I used Soy Milk 1½ cups (355ml)
- All Purpose Flour 3 cups (375g)
- Ground Cinnamon 1 teaspoon
- Baking Soda 2 teaspoons
- Salt 1 teaspoon (6g)
- Vanilla Extract 2 teaspoons (10ml)
- Rum *optional 6 Tablespoons (88ml)
- *replace with 6Tbs more plant milk if omitting the rum
- 1 Recipe American Style Buttercream
Instructions
- Combine the sugar, plant milk, vanilla extract, rum *if using and the oil together in a large mixing bowl whisk smooth
- Add the banana puree and whisk smooth
- Add the sifted dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt) and whisk just until combined- do not overmix
- Pour into a greased and parchment lined cake pan(s) and bake in a preheated 350°F oven for 15-35 minutes- this really depends on what size pans you are using!!
- No matter what pan size I am using I like to always check my cakes at around 15 minutes just to see how they are doing. The mini Twinkie molds didn't take longer than 15 minutes and the baby bundt cakes took closer to 25 minutes.
- If baking in a sheet pan 9" x 13" it will probably take close to 30 minutes to bake, just do the toothpick test or finger indent test - if the cake is springy to the touch when you gently press the centers, it is done!
- Prepare your buttercream recipe of choice and make your buttercream roses to be placed in the freezer until you are ready to decorate the cakes.
Notes
Cakes both plain & decorated can be stored at room temperature for up to 4 days.
Refrigerate for longer storage (up to 10 days) keep in airtight container
Such an easy and yummy recipe! We made a few changes to the recipe -subbed the flour for gluten free flour, added cloves & nutmeg, and realized we were out of plant milk so made more plant milk with an extra banana and water blended together, we also omit the rum and it was still perfect.
Thanks for sharing this fab whacky cake
awesome! thanks for the feedback & great subs!