Banana-walnut Upside-down Cake
"This cake is simple to make, looks fabulous, and tastes positively delicious."
photo by PaulaG
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
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Topping
- 1 cup packed golden brown sugar
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- 3 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 1⁄4 cup toasted walnuts, coarsely chopped
- 4 large ripe bananas, peeled,cut diagonally into ¼ inch thick slices (you may need up to 5 bananas)
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Cake
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 6 tablespoons butter, room temperature
- 1 large egg
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 tablespoons milk
- sweetened whipped cream, to serve
directions
- For topping: Preheat oven to 325F.
- Combine sugar and butter in medium saucepan.
- Stir over low heat until butter melts and mixture is well blended.
- Pour into 9-inch diameter cake pan.
- Spread to coat bottom of pan.
- Pour maple syrup over sugar mixture.
- Sprinkle nuts evenly over.
- Place banana slices in concentric circles on nuts, overlapping slightly, and covering bottom.
- For cake: Stir flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in medium bowl to blend.
- Beat sugar and butter in another bowl until creamy.
- Add egg and vanilla; beat until light and fluffy.
- Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk in 3 additions.
- Spoon batter over bananas.
- Bake until tester comes out clean, about 55 minutes.
- Transfer cake to rack.
- Run knife around pan sides.
- Cool cake on rack 25 minutes.
- Place cake plate over pan; invert cake.
- Let stand 3 minutes, then gently lift off pan.
- Serve warm with whipped cream.
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Reviews
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OMGOSH...If i could give this 10 stars I would. Easy to make and super delish. My family loves it. I cant wait to make it for my husband when he gets home from afghanistan!!!! I am sharing this recipe with my sister also. Thanks for posting -
Very good cake. I also reduced the sugar. Thanks for posting. -
I made this cake today as a surprise birthday cake for my husband. I wanted to make something simple yet extraordinary/different.This turned out so good (much more than what I was expected), that three of us (me, DH & our dog) finished it right away *lol*. I followed PaulaG suggestion by reducing the sugar, butter and bananas. Thank you so much for this great cake recipe. I will definetely make this again soon. -
This was very good. I did reduce the amount of brown sugar from 1 cup to 1/2 cup and used only about 1-1/2 large bananas to cover the bottom of the pan. It had a nice banana flavor without being over powering. Also, I reduced the sweetness in the cake to 1/2 cup and used 1/2 sugar and 1/2 Splenda sugar substitute. Instead of the 6 tablespoons of butter in the batter, I was able to reduce it to 4 tablespoons. Everyone loved it.
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I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
