My Sweetie's Birthday Cake
The cake we baked for my dear hubby's birthday looks monochromatic, but the taste is definitely not. It was super moist and delicious, easy to make, and gluten-free. It is an adaptation of the Best Banana Cake recipe from the new Vegan Family Favorites cookbook.You can use whatever frosting suits your fancy, but since I was working with my daughter, I decided to use silken tofu blended with vanilla pudding mix. The bananas were mashed in the food processor, for that extra smoothness. The original recipe calls for white, but I'm glad I went with the brown rice flour. The salt amount was cut in half, so was the sugar. Anyway, here's what we came up with:
THE BEST BANANA CAKE1 1/2 cups brown rice flour
1/2 t. salt
1 1/2 t. baking powder
1/4 cup + 2 T. sugar or sucanat
3 large ripe bananas, mashed
1 cup (or less) water
Mix all ingredients in a large bowl. The recipe says to bake in 8-inch round cake pans at 350 degrees F for 25 minutes, but we did ours in a bigger round, and it was done in 30 minutes or so.
I love the fact that we only used that much sugar, and that it is gluten and fat-free. Six ingredients for a cake that's so moist and oh so good. Not too shabby, don't you think?
27 Comments:
Kai, the birthday cake looks so pretty & moist & yummy! Sort of an odd coincidence, but today I made 'Banana Bread' from "The Vegan Family Cookbook"!! I just got this cookbook ~ can you recommend other recipes by McCarthy?
Love your new photo! :)
I baked mine from "Vegan Family Favorites," and I actually haven't seen that cookbook you're talking about. But hey, I'd love recommendations too.
If you can find this (VFF) cookbook from the library, I'd highly recommend taking a look at it.
Talking about photos, your avatar is my favorite of yours. So cool!
This looks so tasty. I've never had a banana cake, only banana bread and I can only imagine how good it was with vanilla frosting!
I'm also happy that you're back.
Thank you so much for posting that recipe! I was kind of disappointed, thinking I wouldn't get a birthday cake this year. With this GF, low sugar, whole grain recipe -- Now I get one! I could probably use date sugar... Maybe? You have no idea how happy this has made me :) .
Nothing shabby about it! That cake must have been super delish!!
Happy Birthday to your husband. What a lucky guy to have you as his wife and the mother to such groovy children.
Really nice :)
looks fab. happy b'day to your hubby.
Wow, beautiful family! That cake looks great. I'm amazed it turned out great with just brown rice flour (as I've had to mix it with other flours so far). Mmm, bananas and cake!
And it is fat free too!!!
As a matter of fact, I am going to try it as soon as I can: I love how white it looks! And I am having already dreams of adding in some raspberries to make it pink, prunes to make it lilac, apricots to make it orange, kiwis to make it green...
Ok, I am the colour nuttie!
Banana cake!
what a great bday cake. You're such a good wife-y how cute!
I want to make this but cheat a little and add some coconut (probably some flakes). Banana and coconut go so well together to me.
let me close by saying a profound
YUM
Teddy
happy B. to your husband! the cake looks amazing, thanks for share the recipe too. do you make the rice flour or buy like that?
Wow, that's my kind of recipe!
Your post about the chocolate chip peanut butter cake inspired me to make it for Father's Day, and my dad loved it, so thanks. :)
Hi Kai! I like your new blog home :) That cake looks amazing, I love baking and all things banana so this is going on my must-try list. BTW, those pictures of your girls picking strawberries are adorable! I used to love berry picking in the summer when I was a kid.
Lovely cake! :)
Lucky hubs!
That is a great recipe. The cook looks delicious. Banana cake is my husbands favorite and his birthday is right around the corner. Might have to give this recipe a try.
I'm impressed! I really need to get into the alternative flours.. I love the vegan food blogs here!
You can tell how moist the cake is from the pic..
oooo banana cake sounds yummy, i'm not a vegan , but I'm sure my friend would love it.
I love how it looks so monocromatic. I couldn't do that if I set out to, I'm sure!
Sounds and looks amazing!
I am going to try this cake, it looks wonderful. With our youngest daughter being diabetic, its a perfect cake to make for her
Hey, thanks everyone for all the nice comments!
If you decide to make this cake, let me know how it went, and what other other fun things you added to it.
K- thanks for the kind words!
Cherie- what other things do you do with brown rice flour?
T- I edited the post so that it also says fat-free. How did I forget that? Thanks!
Johanna, I just used store-bought brown rice flour.
PrimaryConsumer- glad to hear that your dad liked the CCPB cake! Awesome.
Yogi- you don't have to be vegan to enjoy this cake...
Again, thanks to all of you for the comments and for being patient with my infrequent posts.
Kai, that cake looks soooo good. I'm strange (that goes without saying!) about bananas. I don't like them except in baked goods. As a fruit on their own or in smoothies, ick. But banana cake with vanilla pudding tofu frosting....oh, I want to make some of that.
Your family is absolutely lovely. Your girls are very sweet and they have such wonderful names. I just got some local strawberries yesterday. Can't wait to have some. Thanks for sharing these posts. Very nice.
Yummy looking cake - I always love new ways to use up bananas that just didn't get consumed during the week.
-Crystal
i can't believe i've missed your recent posts ! there must be something wrong with your rss feed because my aggregator hasn't returned anything since you had to set up your new blog. i did update the new address in my reader !!
for now i'll come to your site daily, but let me know if you figure out what's up. best wishes !
Hi Kai, I'm missing your posts too! Your feed still goes to the other blog. :-( But I'm happy I finally found this delicious-looking cake recipe!
Wow, delish!
Mama,
That looks so good!
It's making me hungry.
That sounds so good, and it's actually gluten-free! (I'm a celiac too) I'm gonna ask my mom to make this for me for my birthday. You could also probably make this into a gluten-free banana bread probably?
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