Banana Cake with Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting
This banana cake is lightly adapted from Christina Lane's new Sweet & Simple: Dessert for Two cookbook. It is lightly sweetened with coconut sugar and banana (of course!) and is topped with the most decadent and delish dark chocolate peanut butter frosting.
These are my kind of bananas.
Ripened to sweet perfection. Spotted with love. Perfect for baking.
One of the things I love most about Christina's book is that all the desserts are small (for two --- or three if you count Babycakes!!). You don't end up with tons of leftovers in your fridge. You completely satisfy your sweet tooth with just a little bit and then move on. Life is all about balance!! And all of her recipes are easily adaptable to be gluten-free and/or dairy-free, depending on your need.
If you don't already follow Christina, you totally should. She is such a vibrant, fun, loyal, funny, balanced person and momma to the cutest lil' Camille. And she sends me videos of Camille eating / "stealing" the quinoa/lentil blend from my book Superfood Weeknight Meals directly from their fridge... and it's the cutest.
You need it in your life. It's perfectly sweet, perfectly moist, and perfectly satisfying. And you'll want to eat the frosting with a spoon. But, please do save some for the top of the cake; it pairs so beautifully with the banana!
This banana cake is lightly adapted from Christina Lane's new Sweet & Simple: Dessert for Two cookbook. It is lightly sweetened with coconut sugar and banana (of course!) and is topped with the most decadent and delish dark chocolate peanut butter frosting.
These are my kind of bananas.
Ripened to sweet perfection.
Spotted with love.
Perfect for baking.
One of the things I love most about Christina's book is that all the desserts are small (for two --- or three if you count Babycakes!!). You don't end up with tons of leftovers in your fridge. You completely satisfy your sweet tooth with just a little bit and then move on. Life is all about balance!! And all of her recipes are easily adaptable to be gluten-free and/or dairy-free, depending on your need.
A couple swaps I made:
Instead of butter, I used my favorite VEGAN butter-infused coconut oil. <----- sooooooooooo good.
Instead of all-purpose flour, I used Bob's Gluten-free 1:1 baking flour.
Instead of white sugar, I used coconut sugar.
If you don't already follow Christina, you totally should. She is such a vibrant, fun, loyal, funny, balanced person and momma to the cutest lil' Camille. And she sends me videos of Camille eating / "stealing" the quinoa/lentil blend from my book Superfood Weeknight Meals directly from their fridge... and it's the cutest.
Photo of Christina and Camille // by Whiskey and Soba
But back to this cake.
You need it in your life. It's perfectly sweet, perfectly moist, and perfectly satisfying. And you'll want to eat the frosting with a spoon. But, please do save some for the top of the cake; it pairs so beautifully with the banana!
Other recipes I can't wait to try from Sweet & Simple: Dessert for Two are:
Banana Cake from the Sweet & Simple Cookbook
Description
gluten-free baking | banana cake | dessert for two | small desserts
Ingredients
Notes
*This is the vegan butter-flavored coconut oil I love.
** Published with permission, from The Countryman Press.
Instructions
Yields 4 Servings
Nosh and Nourish