If there’s anything better than a banana cake, it’s a banana layer cake with thick, indulgent caramel oozing with every bite. Aromatic for the adults and sweet for the kids, everyone is sure to be fond of this one – especially once they find out it’s homemade!
Ingredients
- 185 g butter, softened
- 1¼ cup (275 g) caster sugar
- 2 tsps vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 1¼ cup mashed banana
- 2¼ cup self-raising flour
- ½ tablespoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- ⅓ cup (80 ml) milk
- 500 g mascarpone cheese
- ½ cup (125 ml) thickened cream
- 380 g canned caramel, chilled
- 1 large banana, sliced thinly
- 1 tbsp boiling water
Steps
Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease a 24 cm bundt pan well; dust with flour, shake out excess.
Beat butter, sugar and extract in a small bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in mashed banana. Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Stir in sifted flour and soda, then milk. Spread mixture into pan.
Bake cake, on lower shelf in oven, for 30 mins. Cover loosely with baking paper; bake for a further 10 mins or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Stand cake in pan 10 mins before turning, top-side up, onto a wire rack to cool.
Beat mascarpone and cream in a small bowl with an electric mixer until soft peaks form.
Split cold cake into three layers. Whisk caramel in a small bowl. Spread bottom layer of cake with one-third of the caramel, then half the mascarpone mixture and half the banana slices. Repeat next layer with half the remaining caramel, remaining mascarpone mixture and remaining banana slices. Replace top of cake.
Whisk remaining caramel with the water; drizzle over top of cake.