Simply, The Best Gluten-Free Banana Cake recipe is delicious, moist, and easy to make! It can be topped with icing, custard, or eaten warm from the oven!
This is THE Best Gluten-Free Banana Cake Ever!!!
...and it is really easy!
Gluten-free cakes can often be dry and not have much flavour
BUT
this recipe gives you the chance to have a moist, fluffy, tasty and delicious cake...
...and you can have it on its own, warm from the oven drizzled with custard
or it can be iced with either butter or
lemon cream cheese icing
(yes...I know...that is the big decision right! 😉 )
The Best Gluten-Free Banana Cake Ever!
Ingredients
- 2 ripe bananas - mashed
- 125 g butter - at room temp
- 2 eggs
- ¾ of a cup of brown sugar
- 1½ cups of gluten free self raising flour - I use Orgran Gluten Free Self Raising Flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ teaspoon of bi-carb soda
- ¼ cup of milk (of your choice) I use almond milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to a moderate temperature 180ºC or 350ºF
- Cream butter, sugar and vanilla together
- Beat in eggs, one at a time
- Mash bananas well with a fork then beat into the creamed mixture
- Fold in flour and soda, then stir in milk
- Line a cake tin (or ring tin) with baking paper. (I line the base and cut off the extra paper and grease the sides with butter)
- Spoon onto the baking tin and bake at 180ºC or 350ºF (moderate oven) for 45 mins or until cooked. Test with a skewer and if it comes out clean, then it is ready.
- Cool in the tin for a few minutes before turning out onto a cake cooler.
- You can serve it warm drizzled with custard or when the cake is cool, ice it with either a butter cream icing or cream cheese icing.
- Cream Cheese Icing - mix 125g of soft cream cheese, 1 cup of icing sugar and a good squeeze of lemon juice. Mix to a smooth consistency and top the delicious banana cake!! Enjoy 🙂
Icing the Gluten Free Banana Cake
Number 1 - Lemon Cream Cheese Icing
Adding this lemon cream cheese icing makes this Gluten-Free Banana Cake perfect - 'it is the icing on the cake' 😉....especially topped with a freshly sliced banana!
Cream Cheese Icing - mix 125g of soft cream cheese, 1 cup of icing sugar, and a good squeeze of lemon juice.
Mix to a smooth consistency and top the delicious banana cake!!
Number 2 - Lemon Icing
Simply mix 1 ½ cups of gluten-free icing sugar and ½ teaspoon of lemon juice and ½ teaspoon of water and mix until it makes a smooth consistency.
Number 3 -
....Eaten warm from the oven with no icing!
Moist, full of flavour and Oh!...so easy!
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Morgan Taber
I seriously have 10 pounds of bananas sitting in my fruit bowl. Thank you so much!
H M U
This recipe is a great gluten free banana cake..... Turned out great & so YUMMY..... Give a great BIG 10 for this recipe.... Thank you so MUCH for sharing.....
Clare
This was perfect. Easy to make and so nice!
Jo
Absolutely perfect banana cake! Worked brilliantly every time I've made it (even with baby-brain making me use the wrong sugar 🥴😵💫FYI raw caster sugar, soft brown sugar, and coconut sugar all make a nice cake 🤷♀️)
Never even gets to cool down as it gets devoured 😂
Kelly
Can I use marg instead of butter
Barb
Hi Kelly!
Yes, I have used it before and it was just as delicious! 😋 Enjoy
Kelly
Thank you I’m going to try make it I have children that are dairy free and gluten free
Emma rose
Well New to making f2f food and made the banana cake, except with yoghurt instead and yummmmm, served with passion fruit cream cheese frosting. Thanks for my daily sparkle
Vana
This is genuinely the BEST gluten free banana cake recipe I have made and I have made alot! Thank you.
Briekitten
This cake disappeared in 4 hours.
I made some modifications, as my daughter is gluten & dairy free. I’m learning a lot about dairy free-cooking substitutions, and this is hands down the best recipe I’ve ever tried that allows those modifications. I made a glaze to go on top with dairy free cream cheese, confectioners sugar & lemon juice; poke holes in the cake and added the glaze when it was semi-warm. Then I put it straight into the fridge for an hour. Talk about amazing. And I believe real feta is a food group!
Enya
This cake turned out amazing. Wouldn't be able to tell it is gluten free. The only thing is I found cook time to be way shorter (about 30mins)
Barb
That’s fantastic Enya! So glad it is amazing for you! (Yes cook times can vary depending on different types of ovens) Enjoy!!! 😀😀😀
Aleksandra
You would never tell this is gluten free! Delicious 😋
Garry (UK)
Wonderful recipe. Great taste and texture which is not what you can say about all gf recipes.
Barb
That’s great Garry... glad you enjoyed it!! 😀
Judy Fragiadakis
Heavenly. I added chopped walnuts and they made it perfect.
Barb
That sounds delicious Judy! What a great tip! Enjoy! 😀
Rae
This cake us seriously good. So light and easy to make. I did put a lemon zest, sugar free cream cheese topping on it. Thank you😀
Barb
Hi Rae! Glad that you liked it. Yes, what a great idea to top with sugar free cream cheese and lemon zest! yum! Enjoy 🙂
JayK
AMAZING RECIPE!!!! 10/10
Barb
Hi JayK...so glad that you loved it! Enjoy 🙂
Vania
I just tried this. And this is the best banana cake recipe ever!
OMG i cannot believe how good is this. i did not even make an icing for it.
Thank you so much!!
Suzy
Great recipe, just bake one today, beyond delicious ! Thank you for sharing. I think I can cut down the butter by a little, not because of calories, but the cake is a touch too oily. Will keep this as my “go to” cake recipe.
Deb
The milk is missing from the ingredients list and the measurements. Please advise.
Barb
Oh! Thank you for letting me know Deb. I have updated the recipe to include the 1/4 cup of milk of your choice. 🙂
Eni
I made it gluten free dairy free using 80ml of vegetable oil instead of butter, and soy milk . Beautiful.
MTA
This recipe is incredible!! I doubled it, used black bananas & DF butter as son is dairy free & my husband who has no allergies loved it!! Thank you for a simple and tasty recipe 😍
Barb
Hi !! That is wonderful to hear that you loved it! Yes, what a good idea to double it and use DF butter… double the delicious goodness! 😀🌈
Dolores caranci
Wonderful, so moist and lovely, best I have ever tried.
Thank you.
rich
Simple, tasty worked a treat. Loved it thanks
Rich 😉