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    Banana Upside Down Cake

    Last Updated On: Apr 14, 2025 by Aarthi

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    "Upside Down Banana Cake is a delicious vanilla cake topped with a caramel glazed bananas, they look so pretty and taste even more delicious"

    Banana Upside Down Cake

    Table of Contents

    • Banana Upside Down Cake with Step by Step Pictures.
    • CHECK OUT MY OTHER DELICIOUS CAKE RECIPES,
    • HOW TO MAKE UPSIDE DOWN BANANA CAKE
    • QUITE POPULAR RECIPE NOW---> Mary Berry's Ginger & Treacle Spiced Tray Bake
    • TIPS AND TRICKS FOR MAKING BANANA UPSIDE DOWN CAKE:
    • IF YOU LIKE THIS RECIPE YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:
    • 📖 Recipe Card
    • Banana Upside Down Cake Recipe

    Banana Upside Down Cake with Step by Step Pictures.

    I love baking with bananas. So far I have shared tons of recipes using bananas. You can imagine the cake and I have it right here for you. This is my latest addition to my recipe collection. It is a delicious banana upside down cake and it is everything you want in a banana cake.

    • Upside down cakes are a classic cake which is super moist and delicious.
    • This recipe is a great way to use up your over-ripe bananas on hand, in the cake itself and in the topping of the cake as well.
    • Completely homemade, this has the best texture and moistness.
    • This recipe is similar to my pineapple upside down cake and it is one of the best recipe.

    This cake is super easy and the end results are to die for. If you love caramel drizzle over any of your desserts, then this Banana Upside Down Banana Cake already comes packed full of that goodness.

    If you want to have more of caramel, then double up the caramel sauce ingredients so you would have more caramel sauce to drizzle over the cake.

    CHECK OUT MY OTHER DELICIOUS CAKE RECIPES,

    Raisin Cakes

    French Almond Cake

    Banana Upside Down Cake

    The cake is plain vanilla cake which I made very simple. I didn't add bananas in the cake batter since I don't want to over power the cake. The bananas on top is plenty and adds so much flavour to the cake.

    So here you go for the recipe,

    HOW TO MAKE UPSIDE DOWN BANANA CAKE

    • Caramel sauce: start by making caramel sauce. take butter, sugar, vanilla, salt in a sauce pan and melt gently to create a sauce. pour this sauce into your cake pan. don't over cook the caramel sauce else it may harden.
    • Bananas: now take the star of the show, ripe bananas. slice them into rounds and place over the caramel sauce.
    • Dry ingredients: mix together the dry ingredients separately in a bowl and set aside.
    • Wet ingredients: mix together the wet ingredients separately in another bowl.
    • Cake batter: mix both dry and wet together gently to create a smooth batter. pour the batter over the bananas and bake till cooked.
    • Serving: cool the cake for 2 mins in the pan and un mould immediately. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

    QUITE POPULAR RECIPE NOW---> Mary Berry's Ginger & Treacle Spiced Tray Bake

    Banana Upside Down Cake

    TIPS AND TRICKS FOR MAKING BANANA UPSIDE DOWN CAKE:

    • Use a 9″ round spring-form pan, although this has worked for me in the standard 9″ cake pan others have had trouble with the batter spilling over, so to be safe, use a higher sided pan.
    • Use ripe bananas for best taste.
    • You could skip adding salt when making the caramel sauce. But salt adds nice taste to the sauce like salted caramel sauce.
    • Never leave the cake to cool completely. Just let the cake cool for 2 minutes after you remove from the oven and unmould immediately. Else the caramel may harden and the cake won't come out of the pan.

    Banana Upside Down Cake

    IF YOU LIKE THIS RECIPE YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:

    • Upside Down Orange Cake

    • Banana Upside Down Sundae

    • Pineapple Sundae

    • Pineapple Cake

    • Eggless Apple Cake

    If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @[email protected] and I’ll help as soon as I can.

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    Banana Upside Down Cake Recipe

    Simple yet delicious banana upside down cake which has caramel coated bananas on top and spongy vanilla cake beneath it.
    5 from 1 vote
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    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 25 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 35 minutes minutes
    Servings: 8 servings
    Calories: 286kcal

    Ingredients

    For Sauce

    • ½ cup Brown Sugar
    • 3 tbsp Unsalted Butter
    • 2 Ripe Banana
    • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
    • a pinch Salt

    For Cake:

    • ¾ cup Maida | All Purpose Flour
    • ¼ cup Milk
    • ½ cup Sugar
    • ½ tsp Cinnamon powder
    • ¼ tsp Baking Soda | Cooking Soda
    • ½ tsp Baking Powder
    • 1 Large Egg
    • ¼ cup Oil - ¼ cup
    • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Take any shaped baking tray and grease it lightly with butter if you want. But it is not necessary. I used heart shaped baking pan.
    • Take sauce ingredients in a sauce pan and melt gently.
    • Pour this into a baking pan, spread evenly. Arrange sliced bananas on top and set aside.
    • Take flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon in a bowl. Mix well and set aside.
    • In a separate bowl, mix egg, milk, oil and vanilla.
    • Now pour this wet ingredients into the dry and fold gently.
    • Spoon this over the banana layer and bake for 25 to 30 mins.
    • Remove the pan from oven and leave to cool for couple of mins and immediately unmould.
    • Serve.

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    Notes

    1. Use ripe bananas for best taste.
    2. You could skip adding salt when making the caramel sauce. But salt adds nice taste to the sauce like salted caramel sauce.
    3. Never leave the cake to cool completely. Just let the cake cool for 2 minutes after you remove from the oven and unmould immediately. Else the caramel may harden and the cake won't come out of the pan.

    STORAGE 

    • You can keep the cake in a air tight container at room temp for one day.
    • Store in fridge for longer shelf life.

    SERVING SUGGESTIONS

    This banana upside down cake taste amazing when served hot or warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
     

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1portion | Calories: 286kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 35mg | Sodium: 82mg | Potassium: 155mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 30g | Vitamin A: 196IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 47mg | Iron: 1mg
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    Pictorial:

    1)Start by making the caramel sauce. Take butter in a sauce pan.

    2)Add in brown sugar

    3)Add a pinch of salt

    4)Now heat this till it is melted

    5)Like this

    6)Pour the caramel sauce in a baking mould

    7)Arrange sliced bananas on top

    8)Now lets make the cake batter. Take flour in a bowl

    9)Add in cinnamon powder

    10)Add in baking soda and baking powder

    11)Mix well and set aside

    12)Take egg in a jug

    13)Add in sugar

    14)Add in oil

    15)Add in vanilla extract

    15)Add in milk

    16)Mix well till combined

    17)Pour this over the dry ingredients

    18)Fold gently

    19)Spoon this batter over the bananas

    19)Spread evenly

    20)Bake till done

    21)Unmould

    22)Serve

    If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @[email protected] and I’ll help as soon as I can.

    Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest ,Youtube and Twitter for more Yummy Tummy inspiration.

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