Banana Upside Down Cake

Banana Upside Down Cake is incredibly moist and flavorful dessert, but it could be great breakfast or snack, too. You can’t go wrong if serve piece of this cake with toasted pecans and  caramel sauce on top. Or maybe you are more for classic Chocolate Chip Banana Bread?!

This delicious Banana Upside Down Cake has rich flavor thanks to mashed bananas in the batter and a layer of banana slices in caramel sauce on top. This cake could be breakfast! It’s rich and dense cake, but very moist at the same time. It’s something between bread and a cake, different from this equaly delicious Custard Cake.

This recipe starts with creaming butter and sugar, like most of the cake recipe. It should provide light and airy texture, but I combined all-purpose flour and whole wheat flour to make richer flavor and denser texture. It goes really well with caramel and banana.

So in the end, this Banana Upside Down Cake turned out great but resemble to delicious banana bread. To provide moist texture I used plain Greek yogurt, but you could use sour cream as well.

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 4.5 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces
• About 3 bananas sliced into 1/4-1/3 inch rounds
• For the cake batter:
• 1/3 cup unsalted butter-softened
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup plain Greek yogurt or sour cream
• 2 large eggs
• 2 overripe bananas-mashed (about 1 cup)
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup whole wheat flour
• 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• dash of salt
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• For Caramel Glaze:
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter
• ¼ teaspoon salt

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease 8 x 8 x 2 inch square cake pan or 9 x 2 inch round cake pan. The pan must be 8 cups volume (cake will overflow 8 x 8 x 1 1/2 inch square pan, it has only 6 cup volume)
2. Spread 2/3 cup brown sugar on the bottom of the pan and scattered pieces of butter (4.5 Tbsp). Place the pan in the oven for 5-7 minutes (until butter has melted). Remove from the oven and stir butter and sugar and spread evenly on the bottom. Arrange sliced bananas to cover the bottom. Set Aside.
3. To make the batter in a bowl stir together dry ingredients ( flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt), set aside.
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