Brown Butter Banana Cake with Chocolate Caramel Frosting.

Brown Butter Banana Cake with Chocolate Caramel Frosting. Quick to mix up, fun to serve, and SO DELICIOUS! It’s the perfect simple 2-layer cake to bake up this weekend. With over-ripe bananas, salted butter, and a good amount of sweet salted caramel chocolate frosting, this is sure to become your favorite banana cake!

This might just be a new go-to layer cake for me. It’s my banana bread recipe, all done up and baked into a simple layer cake with the most delicious whipped cream chocolate and caramel frosting. By the time I was done testing this cake, I was overly excited to share it. But I decided to wait until this romantic day to share it! It’s the perfect sweet chocolate cake to share on Valentine’s Day!

Of course, this is a great year-round cake, too. Holiday or no holiday, this will be loved!

For a lot of us, choosing to make a recipe with bananas can be inspired by a glance at the counter and seeing that your bananas are slowly turning shades of black.

How many times have you been here? The usual thought is to bake banana bread, but this cake is way more fun. And the addition of nutty brown butter, plus sweet, salted caramel chocolate frosting, makes it even more delicious!

It’s been so long since I shared a layer cake recipe. Somehow, I got into the habit of making sheet cakes or loaf cakes. I soon started to avoid layer cakes because they tend to be more time-intensive. But this cake is not that. Aside from stacking and layering the two layers of thick banana cake, this is as easy as any banana bread recipe.

I know you will love it!!

Let’s Jump Into The Details

Ingredients – for the cake

• medium overly ripe bananas
• browned salted butter
• eggs
• honey
• vanilla extract
• all-purpose flour
• baking soda
• baking powder
• ground cinnamon
• chocolate shavings – these are for decorating
• dried rose petals – also for decorating

Ingredients – for the frosting

• maple syrup
• heavy cream
• semi-sweet or dark chocolate
• vanilla extract
• sea salt

Steps

Step 1: Mix the cake batter

For this cake, you’ll need overly ripe bananas. These will give you the sweetest, softest banana cake!

Mix the mashed-up bananas with 2 sticks of salted, browned butter. To quickly brown the butter, set a pot over medium heat. Allow the butter to brown lightly until it smells toasted. Simple.

To the mashed bananas and the butter, eggs, honey, and vanilla. Mix in the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Be sure the batter is mixed well.

Step 2: bake

Now divide the batter between 2 buttered cake pans. Bake for around 30 minutes until just set. Let the 2 cakes cool before you frost them!

Step 3: the frosting

Start with the caramel. This is my no-fail, no-fuss caramel. To make it, you just need to boil maple syrup and heavy cream.

First, boil the maple until it’s very bubbly on top, around 5 minutes. Then add the cream and boil for about 10 minutes. The longer you boil the caramel, the thicker it will become.

Then, add chopped chocolate, vanilla, and sea salt. Let the mix cool.

Once the chocolate caramel is set, use an electric mixer to whip the caramel into a light, creamy whipped frosting/ganache.

Step 4: frost

All that’s left is to frost the layers. I didn’t do anything fancy at all. I layered the cakes with the frosting, then topped with chocolate shavings and a few rose petals to finish!

When it comes to chocolate cake, I like to keep the decorating to a minimum. Let that chocolate stand out!

Looking for other desserts? Here are my favorites: 

Baked Apple Cider Doughnuts with Cinnamon Maple Glaze

Baked Blueberry Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts

Maple Glazed Doughnuts

Baked Hot Chocolate Doughnuts

Lastly, if you make this Brown Butter Banana Cake with Chocolate Caramel Frosting, be sure to leave a comment and/or give this recipe a rating! Above all, I love to hear from you guys and always do my best to respond to each and every comment. And, of course, if you do make this recipe, don’t forget to tag me on Instagram! Looking through the photos of recipes you all have made is my favorite!