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Banana Upside Down Cake

Feast with your eyes while indulging in this banana upside down cake. Think of warm buttery flavours of brown sugar, cinnamon, and so much more!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes

Ingredients
  

Banana topping

  • 2 bananas
  • 1/4 cup butter unsalted
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tbsp whisky
  • 1 tbsp maple syrup

Banana cake

  • 2 bananas mashed
  • 1 cup cake flour
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 large egg room temperture
  • 1 egg yoke room temoerature
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp whisky
  • 1/2 tsp cinnimon
  • 1/4 tsp clove
  • 1/4 cup peacasn crushed

Instructions
 

Banana topping

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8 inch cake pan with a little butter and line the base of the pan with parchment paper.
  • Slice three ripe bananas in half lengthwise, and set aside.
  • Place the pan over medium heat, melt butter and brown sugar together. Once the butter and sugar amalgamate and bubble, reduce heat to low. Add vanilla, whiskey, and maple syrup, stirring continuously until incorporated. Increase the heat back to medium and add the bananas gently. Once the syrup starts to bubble gently, spoon off the mixture over top of the bananas so they're coated in the syrup.
  • Reduce heat back down to low and carefully remove the bananas, placing them in the bottom of the cake pan in your desired design. Pour the caramelized syrup over the bananas and ensure it covers the entire base of the cake pan. Set aside while you whip up the cake batter.

Banana cake

  • In a mixing bowl, add all cake ingredients together at once - mashed banana, cake flour, brown sugar, eggs, yolk, salt, baking soda, baking powder, vanilla, whiskey, cinnamon, clove, and pecans. With your paddle attachment or hand mixer whiz up until all ingredients are combined.
  • Pour the batter over the bananas and caramelized syrup in the cake pan. Place cake pan in oven and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the top is golden.
  • Once done, remove from the oven and place on a wire rack to set for 10 minutes. Then, take a knife and run it around the edge of the cake carefully. Place a wire rack over the cake and flip it over so it comes out of the cake pan (careful it might still be hot).
  • Enjoy!