Bananas Foster Cake

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An incredibly moist and flavorful banana bundt cake flavored with rum and topped with a pecan praline icing.

Today is a SUPER FUN day on the blog, as I’m participating in a little blog hop called Freaky Friday! Michaela from An Affair From The Heart put together this event where one blogger makes a recipe from another assigned blogger’s blog.

I was assigned to pick a recipe from Julie’s blog, Hostess At Heart. We were totally meant to be matched– she met her husband in college, they have two kids, and they live an active and busy life. All of these things are true for us, too, and I hope that Matt and I are still trudging along like a team after 30 more years of marriage, too!

When I went looking for a cake (my favorite!), I knew nearly instantly exactly which cake I was going to use. I chose Julie’s Bananas Foster cake because, well, I’m a sucker for anything Bananas Foster, I nearly always have ripe bananas waiting to be used, and DO YOU SEE THIS PECAN PRALINE ICING?

Yeah. No brainer.

I’m also a big fan of quick batters, and this one fit that bill and then some. Aside from making sure the ingredients are at room temperature, putting them all together was super simple.

Even that gorgeous pecan praline icing was super easy to make.

The cake batter comes together easily, and you can definitely get by without even using an electric mixer or stand mixer, though those appliances do streamline the process a bit.

Both the cake batter and the icing contain rum, which is a common ingredient in traditional Bananas Foster.

My best suggestion, though, is to use a Tablespoon of rum extract, which will mimic the taste of rum without adding any alcohol. Simply add 1 Tablespoon of rum extract to a measuring cup and fill the remaining amount with whatever liquid you’re using in place of the rum.

Once the Bananas Foster bundt cake is done, you’ll let it cool for about 20 minutes before flipping it out onto a serving platter.

Then you have two choices: you can either add the icing to the slightly warm cake or you can wait until it cools completely to add it.

I let my cake cool for about 30 additional minutes outside of the pan before I went for the icing, and the cake was just cool enough that the icing didn’t slip off, and warm enough that it was a deeeeelightfully slightly warm slice of cake and absolute dessert perfection.

This Bananas Foster cake recipe knocked it out of the park for me. Julie’s careful choice of ingredients yields a perfectly moist cake that is not at all soggy with banana, and the chunks of pecan floating around in each bite were such a nice addition to the texture.

The icing is sweet, but it’s a really lovely complement to the not-too-sweet Bananas Foster cake underneath it and the only thing that made these slices of cake better was a scoop of vanilla ice cream (highly recommend!).

I am so glad that this Freaky Friday event brought me to “meet” some new bloggers and opened up the opportunity to bake someone else’s recipe. I’m usually head down in the sand of my own kitchen, and it was nice to have someone else write the recipe for me this time!

While perusing Julie’s blog, I found a few other recipes that I either considered using or just tucked into my recipe collection for later use.

I will definitely be adding her spaghetti pie to my list of recipes to make for folks who need a meal (to go alongside my typical baked ziti).

These spiced coffee cookies with caramel glaze are speaking to my coffee-loving heart, and this streusel peach bread is calling my peach-and-quick-bread-loving name (reminds me of my peach almond streusel muffins!).

Last but not least of Julie’s recipes are these sourdough chocolate chip cookies, which I will 10000% be adding to my ever-growing list of recipes that use sourdough starter or discard (also see my sourdough English muffins and sourdough cinnamon rolls).

I hope you’ll consider adding Julie’s fabulous Bananas Foster cake recipe to your baking list, because it’s surely a keeper, and I’m so glad I found it for myself!

Take a look at all of our 2021 Freaky Friday Summer Edition Recipes:

1. An Affair from the Heart – Simple Tiramisu
2. Aunt Bee’s Recipes –Roasted Tomatillo Salsa {Salsa Verde}
3. Devour Dinner – Pepperoni Bread
4. The Fresh Cooky – Old Fashioned Lemon Squares
5. Hostess at Heart – Kentucky Butter Cake
6. House of Nash Eats – Apple Pie Ice Cream
7. Lemon Blossoms – Strawberry Cake
8. Lemoine Family Kitchen – Grilled Peach Burrata Arugula Salad
9. Life, Love & Good Food – Bruschetta with Tomato
10. Off the Eaten Path – Fresh Garden Salsa
11. Sue Bee Homemaker – Jalapeño Popper Dip with Bacon
12. The Speckled Palate – Lemon Zucchini Bread
13. Take Two Tapas – Bacon Wrapped Jalapeño Poppers