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Swirled Banana Cake with Chocolate Malt Frosting

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This swirled banana cake is really special! A sweet, tender cake is baked up and topped with a rich, luscious, chocolate malt frosting!

Swirled banana cake full slice

I made a swirled banana cake this weekend.

I found I had extra time this since my husband and I are childless. Well, for 5 days anyway. Let me explain, my 3 kids left yesterday to stay with my in-laws for five days. My in-laws are saints, aren’t they? We’ll see how they feel by the end of the week!

Swirled Banana Cake two pieces and whole cake

Funny, how when you tell people your kids will be gone for several days, they give you a funny smile and a wink. I actually overheard someone ask my husband if he should expect baby number 4 after this! What is wrong with people??? Is that all they think about??? What I think about is that I will have 5 days without a chauffeur schedule-I won’t be driving anyone anywhere! That’s 5 days without getting after someone to clean up. 5 days without convincing someone to finish their dinner. That’s 5 days with eating whatever we want to eat when we want to eat it! That’s 5 days without constantly washing dishes!!! 5 days without breaking up fights and arguments! Not too shabby.

Swirled Banana Cake Sq

But, that’s also 5 days without, “mommy, I love you”. 5 days without infectious screams and giggles. 5 days without little hugs and kisses. 5 days without peaking at peacefully sleeping faces. 5 days without lively chatter. 5 days without snuggling close to warm little bodies. 5 days missing my little ones.

Swirled Banana cake single slice

About Swirled Banana Cake

Since there were fewer mouths here to munch on banana’s, I used them up in this swirled banana cake. Since I love malt flavor, I thought a chocolate malt frosting would pair perfectly. I was right! It is a wonderful combination! The cake was so moist and loaded with sweet banana flavor! As I said, it’s a swirled cake, so part of the batter was combined with cocoa. Mmm, mmm! The frosting is very rich, you can certainly leave out the malt powder. This banana cake is a wonderful way to use up bananas. A great alternative to banana bread. And the chocolate malt frosting makes it a complete package!

Need more ways to use up bananas? Try this Toffee Banana Poke Cake, Banana Split Cake, Banana Split Banana Bread,or Banana’s Foster Pancakes!

Yield: 24

Swirled Banana Cake with Chocolate Malt Frosting

Swirled Banana Cake with Chocolate Malt Frosting

A banana cake, swirled with chocolate and frosted with a rich, malt flavored chocolate frosting.

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes

Ingredients

For the cake

  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 large ripe bananas, mashed.
  • 1 1/2 cup flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
  • Chocolate Malt Frosting
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 2 3/4 cup powdered sugar
  • 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 6 tablespoons milk
  • 3 tablespoons malt powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9x13 pan and set aside. Beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add in egg and vanilla. Finally, add in mashed bananas. Stirring until just combine.
  2. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Create a well in the center of your dry ingredients. Pour in your wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Scoop out half of your batter into a separate bowl and combine that with your cocoa. Spread cocoa mixture on the bottom of your pan. Spread remaining batter over cocoa layer. Swirl batter with a knife.
  3. Bake for 25 minutes until or until edges begin to brown. Allow cake to cool before frosting. Sprinkle chopped candies over cake.
  4. Frosting:
  5. Beat butter in a mixer until creamy. Slowly add in powdered sugar. Gradually add in milk and cocoa, alternating between the two. Mix in vanilla and malt powder until frosting is creamy and easy to spread.

Notes

Garnish cake with chopped malted milk balls or walnuts

Nutrition Information


Amount Per Serving Calories 236Total Fat 10gSaturated Fat 6gCholesterol 32mgSodium 169mgFiber 1gSugar 24gProtein 3g

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Tanya Schroeder

About Tanya Schroeder

Tanya is a full time wife and mom, a part time chef/baker, and a wanna be photographer! Tanya believes every once in a while, dessert should be eaten first! Hope you like what you see!

Comments

  1. Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel says

    Hahaha wow, some people I just don’t get. If I had five days without my family, I’d clean the hell out of my house the first day and spend the rest of the time enjoying no dog hair, no stray shoes or napkins or soda cans, and curl up with a book or my DVR. Let’s just say Barry White would be nowhere involved in this, lol. BTW, this cake looks AWESOME. Banana cake is one of my favorites and that malted frosting looks to-die for!

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    • Lemonsforlulu says

      BAHAHAH!!!No Barry White and NO bear skin rugs on the floor!!! And I did spend the first day polishing my floors and cleaning. Now I can spend time on Pinterest without worrying about neglecting my kids!

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  2. ChgoJohn says

    Banana cake, well, banana anything is a favorite. Adding the chocolate malt frosting puts this cake over the top. If your kids find out this is the kind of thing you bake when they’re not around, they’ll be collecting Social Security and will still be living at home.

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  3. Danielle says

    This looks so good! My girls would love it. They spent five days at my parents and although I missed them, they had a great time and I caught up on so much! You will appreciate them so much when they return. Well for an hour or so..until you’re perfect house from just you and your husband is again destroyed by your children. ; ) Ha Ha

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  6. Nicki says

    I made this cake and brought it in to work for a colleague’s birthday. It went over very well and all I brought home was an empty dirty pan! I highly recommend it.

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    • Lemonsforlulu says

      I’m so happy to hear this turned out well for you and that you had an empty pan!! I want to work at your office!

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  7. Nika Andersen says

    Oh wow this cake looks so good…had to check out some other recipes whilst I was visiting and now am a subscriber so I don’t miss out on the future ones!

    Thanks for sharing and I hope you enjoyed your kid free time (and the reunion!).
    Nika

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    • Lemonsforlulu says

      Thank you! Thanks for taking the time to visit! I’ll be checking out A Little Less perfect as well!

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  13. kelley @ Miss Information says

    Right there with ya sister! I would clean my house, read a book and blog non stop!
    Thanks for sharing at I Freakin did it Friday

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  14. Maury @Life on Mars says

    YUM! I love banana cake so this is definitely something I want to try! I’m a new follower and I’m pinning this! I’d love for you to visit my blog! Have a great day!

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  15. Jocelyn @BruCrew Life says

    Believe me that’s the farthest thing from my mind when I have child free days!! Haha! This cake is absolutely amazing!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!

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  19. Andi @ The Weary Chef says

    This was a very sweet post, Tanya, and a great recipe! It’s funny how we can’t wait to get a break from the kids, but then we miss them when they are gone 🙂

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  20. Raquel says

    I love that you topped this with this delicous frosting. Whoppers are one of my favorite candies and I can almost tast this now Tanya! Hopw you enjoyed your kid-free time!

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