A perfect addition to breakfast or brunch, Gold Coast Banana Loaf Cake also makes a sweet but light ending to casual summer meals. Moist, light and delicate, this cake has a subtle banana flavor and airy texture that’s never too heavy or overpowering. The best part? Gold Coast Banana Loaf Cake is a cinch to make and takes the title of Quick-trick Dessert.
Topped with a simple, sweetened, cream cheese spread, the secrets to creating scrumptious Gold Coast Banana Loaf Cake may surprise you: 1 box yellow cake mix, a pinch of baking soda and 1 cup mashed bananas. It really is that easy and it really is that good.
Besides, who among us couldn’t use a few quick tricks up our sleeve when it comes to easy summer entertaining?
Gold Coast Banana Loaf Cake
(recipe featured on Inn Cuisine, adapted from Betty Crocker’s Cake and Frosting Mix Cookbook, circa 1960’s)
- 1 box yellow cake mix (I suggest Betty Crocker SuperMoist Yellow Cake Mix)
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup mashed bananas (2-3 medium bananas)
to create the sweetened, cream cheese spread pictured above
- 1/3 cup cream cheese, slightly softened
- 4 tablespoons powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F for baking.
To make the batter for Gold Coast Banana Loaf Cake, prepare cake mix as directed except for the following changes: stir 1/8 teaspoon baking soda into cake mix before adding liquids and eggs, and use 1/4 cup less water than the package suggests. With cake mix prepared as directed above, add 1 cup mashed bananas and stir batter until thoroughly combined. Pour batter into 2, well-greased, 9×5x3-inch loaf pans and bake in center of a preheated 350 degree F oven for approximately 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of each loaf cake come out clean. Remove loaf pans to cooling rack and allow cakes to cool in pans for 10-15 minutes before turning out onto serving plates.
Serve loaf cakes warm or at room temperature. To store and keep moist, wrap loaf cakes tightly in plastic wrap. You may also freeze well-wrapped cakes (up to 1 month) to thaw later and use as needed.
Yield: two loaf cakes.
To complete your Gold Coast Banana Loaf Cakes, top with this simple spread: mix softened cream cheese and powdered sugar until icing is smooth and creamy. Serve with sliced loaf cake. Amounts listed above will make enough spread for 1 loaf—if serving both loafs at once, double these amounts. Cover any leftover icing airtight and store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Enjoy!
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I love easy and delicious Sandie.
oh boy…I’m thinking french toast out of this would be fab!
Sandie, I love this! So easy and I bet so GOOD! Thanks so much for sharing.
~ingrid
This looks dangerously good. I would probably call this “banana bread” so that I felt less piggy eating four pieces of CAKE
perfect for MIL visiting this week.. thanks
gp
Hi, I would love to make this but am not sure what yellow cake mix is! Don’t have things like that where I live. is it possible to change it for just a normal sponge mix?
Val – Always a time & opportunity for easy & delicious!
OneShotBeyond – Not sure that French toast out of this would work, as the cake loaves are very moist & cakey versus being bread-like. Of course, if slices of this loaf cake were to sit out a day or 2 at room temperature, perhaps you could get it stale & dry enough that it would work well for French toast. (I know that sounds gross, but the best French toast comes from drier, stale-ish bread.)
Ingrid – Thanks. Who doesn’t need a few, quick recipes in their arsenal.
Maris – lol
GP – I take it your MIL likes bananas…or cake…or both?
Joanne – Hi, and thanks for your question. Yellow cake mix is just boxed cake mix for yellow cake—they sell it in the states under brands like Betty Crocker, Duncan Hines, Pillsbury, etc. Don’t substitute sponge cake for this recipe, it wouldn’t turn out the same, i.e. not dense and loaf-like.
Instead, feel free to substitute any standard cake recipe you like instead of a pre-boxed mix—I think a recipe for chocolate cake might even work nicely here (with the bananas) if you don’t have a from-scratch recipe for a yellow cake. Hope that helps!