Hailo.
I have a few exciting things to share with you today, because it’s Friday and things should be exciting on Friday.
- A re-organized recipes page and a re-vamped resources for food bloggers page!
- An amazing video from my friends Alex and Sonja about how to make homemade pizza dough. Someday when I get a stand mixer, or become more sophisticated, or fall out of love with Domino’s cheese pizza and breadsticks, I will make this homemade pizza dough and it will be awe-some.
- Exciting tidbit number 3 is that after about three weeks of Instagramming, I’ve decided to quit my job and become a professional Instagrammer. Bjork, don’t worry about it.
- I went on a field trip this week, and let’s just say eating a bag lunch on the floor at the museum was not the highlight of my week (sorry, kiddos). And I should probably delete that because it doesn’t fit with my list, but I’m going to press enter instead. Readysetgo.
- Exciting = cake. I made a wonderfully moist, sweet, perfectly dense banana cake. It was semi-healthy. It was topped with at least 5 inches of vegan peanut butter frosting. As it should be.
- It was inspired by Sketch-free Vegan Eating. Thank you, ladies, for being sketch-free.
- Vegan frosting tastes good straight from the bowl. And so does regular frosting.
| Banana Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting |
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Total time: 30 mins
Serves: 9
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch of salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 cup banana puree
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 beaten egg (sub 4 teaspoons flax for vegan)
- 1/4 cup natural peanut butter
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 tablespoons sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, sift the flour, powder, soda, salt (and flax, if using).
- In a smaller bowl, combine sugar, maple syrup, banana puree, oil, water, and egg.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Pour into a greased 9×9 baking dish. Bake for 20-24 minutes or until knife inserted comes out mostly clean.
- For the frosting, whisk peanut butter with sugar and water until smooth and fluffy. Add more peanut butter or water to achieve the desired consistency. Frost the cooled cake and serve immediately.
Notes
This is best eaten the same day that you baked it. This cake is great (and a little lighter) without the frosting, too! And I actually used more like 1/2 cup of PB and 1/2 cup of water for the frosting… because I wanted MORE! This is reflected in the nutrition facts below.
- My last love: an app called Recipe Builder. It allows you to make nutrition labels for all your recipes! And having a little cute nutrition label automatically makes the food healthy. End of discussion.
Got anything exciting to share this Friday?
And if you could just leave your exciting comments by 6:30 pm or so? That’s when I’m going to bed tonight.
Tee.Jee.Eye.Ef!
I'm a teacher, pug lover, and dessert enthusiast. When not in the classroom, I'm in the kitchen. And when not in the kitchen, I'm in a food coma. Juuust kidding. Pinch of Yum is a place where I share pictures and recipes of my favorite foods. Enjoy! -Lindsay
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Ha! Good morning! I think after seeing the nutrition label app, I may have to hijack my sons ipod so I can mess around with some of these things. I made him download Instagram the other day so I could at least see what it’s like! Haven’t gotten further than that though. . . .
On another note, I just got my own KitchenAid mixer! It’s really an awesome addition to the kitchen. One reader likened it to a new family member – now I’m obsessed with finding a name for her. . . (the mixer). Have a great day – and sleep tight this evening!
How exciting about the mixer! I’d love to get one. Someday…
Oh I want to get in on that professional instagramming lark. I think I need to upgrade my amateur status. I have nothing exciting to share other than the fact that is is Friday which, really, is exciting enough in itself!
This cake looks totally delicious!
That cake looks absolutely divine.
When I made banana cake, I also put PB Into the cake, not just on the frosting. Keeps it so moist. I love the color of yours. It’s so pretty!
Great idea! I noticed that even just a layer of PB frosting helped to keep it from drying out. Gotta love that PB!
Mmm this cake sounds so tasty! I certainly would need a big slab of this!
If you follow the serving size, you’ll get 9 huge pieces! Big slab coming right up…
Another winner from you!
Thanks for the shout-out Lindsay! You could always bypass the mixer and put Bjork to wjork kneading the dough. Or, you can just keep dropping hints to Sonja’s Mom until she gets you a mixer for Christmas
I’m intrigued by this frosting, interesting…
lol… Does Sonja’s mom have an email address?
Seriously, though, you guys have done an awesome job with your videos. Love them!
Genius idea…banana and peanut butter, which I love generally speaking together anyway!
love that nutrition label app!
Yeah! It’s not the best for getting a screen shot of the label and uploading it, but it works for on-the-go!
Lots of exciting things going on, love it! And this banana cake with frosting sounds like Elvis’ dream cake!
I know – just gotta add that bacon! Sorry vegans.
cake looks fantastic! love the colors too! so pretty!!
You are the best instagrammer!
This cake looks super yummy….and healthy! Way to go!
Aw, thanks Soo! I don’t know if that’s really true
but it’s such fun to play with!!
Something about snack-y cakes like this make me so happy. Probably something about the frosting. When is is NOT about the frosting?
I am a frosting girl all the way. Sheet cake corner piece? I’m there.
That looks good! Love the texture of the cake
Ohh, I know.. it was so perfect! A little dense, a little gooey, a little fluffy… all in one cake.
This cake is exciting!
I’m going to check out the recipe builder app – I’ve been looking for an easy way to get accurate nutrition facts!
I usually use sparkrecipes “nutrition calculator” tool for the images that I post on my blog, but I wanted a mobile version and this was the only one I could find.
But so far, so good!
Yum! Bananas and peanut butter are a match made in heaven!
Yummm! I’m totally in love with this cake. I’ve been craving all things bananas for some reason(but not just a plain, straight-up banana, weird right?) That frosting sounds awesome. I love how simple it is
oh my! thank you so much for trying out our recipe! This is one of our faves, the peanut butter frosting really takes the “cake”..lol sorry bad joke
looks wonderful!
lol… so true. Your frosting looks so much lighter than mine, I wonder if it had something to do with the type of peanut butter? Regardless, it was wonderful!! Thanks for the inspiration to try a vegan frosting. You know you’ve done well if you can convince me to do that.
Hello, deliciousness!! I think I’m in love with this cake!
I would love to be a professional instagrammer! I’m obsessed. I think I’m going to be obsessed with recipe builder too, I’m off to download that now. Oh, the cake looks great too!
Thanks Lindsay! Have fun with your apps and let me know if you find any new ones!
Oh my heavens… that frosting looks incredible!!
I love that this recipe uses whole wheat flour. I’ve been using it in cookies, cakes and muffins when possible and it has worked out well. It’s great too that it only has a small amount of refined sugar.
I would like it noted that I am also sketch free. —>???
Nothing goes together better than peanut butter and banana! This looks SO moist and delicious
I’ll be excited when this week is over and a huge work project will be out of my hands!
Field trips are the BEST! My school is right in Boston, so we rely on public transportation to get around. Always a blast making sure we don’t lose any of our 4-year-olds on the T! I miss the days of big yellow school buses…
Now this… this just looks perfect for a cold winter’s day!
What an inspired combination of flavours for a cake. I love love love peanut butter and banana on toast so this absolutely has to be the cake for me – thank you!
These look so delicious. YUM!!! I want to eat my computer screen
This is one killer flavor combination. Can’t wait to try it for myself in my kitchen.
I stumbled across your website while exploring tumblr and I am so glad I did! I love the name of your blog, ‘Pinch of Yum’. I stay in India and getting all the ingredients is kind of difficult. So, when I read your Banana Cake with Peanut butter frosting, I fell in love but realised getting ‘whole wheat pastry flour’ would be little difficult and went off to sleep. However, your recipe didn’t leave me and I said what the heck, just substitute Pastry Flour with half wheat and half white flour and wait for what comes out. What came out was yum banana cake! My husband Loved it!
I wanted to make a request, can you please write your recipes for smaller quantity (maybe 3-4 cupcakes)? I want to first try in smaller sizes as I will always land up using some substitute and I hate to see my cakes turn out crappy! It would really help me to try every recipe without wasting
You know what would be awesome?? If you mixed in peanut butter chips into the cake! Unless they all fell to the bottom…
Wait. Peanut butter chips on the bottom and peanut butter frosting on top… still good in my book! =)
Double good! Great idea Emily!