I rarely buy bananas so I didn't have any hanging around to make this cake. Lucky for me, my neighbor buys tons of bananas for her toddler and always offers them to me when they become overripe (in exchange, I generally share whatever I make with them with her family). The timing couldn't have been more perfect when she gave me 2 very ripe bananas late last week! I decided to halve the recipe and use my mini bundt pan.
The recipe for the cake is both easy and familiar - cream the butter and sugar, add egg/vanilla, and alternate dry ingredients with wet. The "wet" ingredient in the recipe is sour cream, which I really love using in baking. As I distributed the batter among the wells of the pan, I made a real effort not to overfill them because I knew exactly what would happen if I did! A few minutes into baking I turned on the oven light and saw this:
Panic ensued, but I'm happy to report that's about as bad as things got. All six mini bundts were successfully baked (in about 22 minutes) and removed from the pan. I decided to just dust them with some confectioner's sugar instead of doing a glaze. This is a terrific cake! It's incredibly moist and soft. That said, I think I might have enjoyed the batter just as much (if not more!) than the cake. After filling my mini bundt pan I had some batter left over and while I could probably have made a mini loaf with it, I found myself eating a ton of it straight from the bowl! Yum!
Many thanks to Mary for hosting this week! She'll post the recipe on her site if you want to give it a shot and, as always, head over to TWD to see how the others bakers fared.
36 comments:
how cute and delicious! I really like the mini bundt cakes.
Aahhh! Sploding cakes! I hate when I see that - I just turn the light off, cross my fingers, and walk away hoping it doesn't get any worse :P Your minis look adorable!
oh these look so good!
Your cakes are gorgeous!
The minis are picture perfect! We loved this cake and I will definitely be making it again. By request too!
Sounds like a good thing you've got going on with your neighbor. The minis turned out great and look so pretty dusted with the sugar.
I'm ALWAYS staring into my oven! Your mini bundts are super cute.
How cute are these? I love those mini bundts; how fortunate that they didn't totally overflow! This one was a hit at work.
Oh...how I heart your bundt pans.
Your cakes are lovely.
I love that you have a banana sharing plan with your neighbors! Glad you liked the recipe
That's right, I forgot how delicious the batter tasted. Yum! Your mini-bundt cakes look lovely.
That's cutting it close. I'm so glad to hear they didn't completely run over.
Your min-bundts are lovely!
Holy bundt cakes! Can we say cute as buttons?!
22 minutes for 6 minis? That's it? I am all about the minis then!
Your mini bundts are too cute! Great pics.
I made this cake last summer and it was a big hit. It's very moist with lots of banana flavor. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Also happy for you that your mini-bundt pan experience this time turned out in your favor :o)
Love your pan, and I swore I would not buy another pan, damn!!! The minis are perfect! I'm a batter eater also; I feel you can usually judge the final out come of a recipe by how good the batter is, LOL.
Those mini bundt pans are awesome and so is that oven picture! And you little cakes look fabulous, great job! What a perfect trade with your neighbor.
Ciao Tracey ! Your minis are wonderful ! I love the dusting !
too cute- I love those little baby bundts! I have a batter-eating problem too- I'm even worse when it comes to cookie dough!
Oh, they turned out so perfect! I love the dusting of the powdered sugar on them. What a great choice to make the little minis. They look so special and festive.
Tracey, those look gorgeous! I love the variety of the bundt cakes and I'm glad they didn't explode and that they turned out gorgeously delicious!
I love that mini bundt pan...just another to add to my ever-growing list! You cakes look really delicious! :)
Ooh...pretty shapes. I like the powdered sugar on top. Cool neighbor!
your minis took 22min? mine took 30mins. haha. Well done on those little beauties anyway. must have tasted darn delicious!
Those mini bundts are just too cute! Glad they didn't overflow too badly!
I did the same thing...I made mini bundts instead of a big one. So much easier and you can give them away!
Lovely photos!
Good thing you ate all that batter - your cakes would have totally overflowed otherwise! Love the minis, and I loved the cake and the batter too.
I really want that pan. But thanks to Gillian, I was thwarted in my attempt to buy new bakeware this week. =) Your minis look terrific!
Those came out great. Love the minis.
You have a win-win set up with your neighbor. I thought the batter was quite tasty too.
Seeing your post made me a bit nervous, especially after my experience with BC's Outrageous brownies a few months ago that exploded in my oven and sent the smoke detectors off in our building, the fire dept soon followed. *sigh*
Your baby bundts are absolutely adorable...and I'm really happy that you didn't have to clean up a huge mess!!!!
They look great! That was a close call in your oven!
You have a good thing going with your neighbor who has the ripe bananas.
I love the mini-bundts! So cute!
Tracey, I love that pan of mini-bundts! I have to get me one of those. Thanks for baking along with me this week. What a nice neighbor...that's an excellent exchange (I think she wins more by getting baked goods!!) - mary the food librarian AKA the bundt librarian! :)
How gorgeous! I know what mean about the batter - I licked the bowl clean!
My minis didn't pouf up so much (we have the same pan, I think), but it's because I ate so much of the batter before it went in.
And that's so nice of your neighbor - but she's totally getting the better end of the deal! Nice job this week.
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