Very quick and simple to prepare with wonderful results. It is an extremely tasty, soft, and moist cake.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 55 mins |
| Additional Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 35 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 16 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ¼ cups white sugar, divided
- 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 6 eggs, separated, divided
- ¾ cup water
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- 2 bananas, mashed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Sift flour, 1/2 of the sugar, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Add egg yolks, water, oil, and vanilla extract and beat until smooth.
- Beat egg whites and cream of tartar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Continue beating until stiff and shiny peaks form; add remaining sugar and beat until incorporated. Fold egg yolk mixture and bananas into egg white mixture just until blended. Slowly pour batter into a 10-inch tube pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cake springs back when lightly touched, 55 to 65 minutes. Invert pan onto a plate and cool. Loosen edges of cake and remove pan.
- Use very ripe bananas for best taste. After mashing bananas, use immediately or the bananas will brown and color the cake.
- Use 1 cup sugar instead of 1 1/4 cups for a lighter taste.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 205 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 28 g |
| Cholesterol | 70 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 249 mg |
| Sugars | 18 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Love this recipe! The cake is so soft and light, I used 3 ripe bananas, 1 cup sugar instead of 1.25 cups, vinegar instead of cream of tartar and added some chocolate chips. It’s perfect!
Followed many recipes and this was the best!! Used 1 cup sugar and doubled the salt, topped with chopped macadamia nuts and dark chocolate, made them into cupcakes. Looking forward to making this again
Loved it! So soft, airy and light! I used only 1 cup of sugar. I put 1/4 cup in the egg white just before it reached stiff peaks. The other 3/4 in the flour.
Very Gooood recipe! Yummy and Optimal taste with easy to make . My Mom and I really LOVE it.
Easy to make…. The family loved it! Very tasty and the texture was just perfect-
All i changed was the cream of tarter because i didnt have any and added some more baking powder because 1T of baking powder has 5/8 T of cream of tarter in it cake was soo good