Banana Nut Cake with Peanut Butter Chocolate Frosting
This cake is good. It’s wholesome. It’s healthy. It’s great for kids. It’s chocolaty and peanut buttery and banana-y. It basically tastes like your childhood. Nothing bad about that. Unless you had a bad childhood. In which case, eat this cake. It’ll make you feel better. I promise.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 10 of 12 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Pecans | 1 oz (28g / ~19 halves) | 196 |
| Peanut | 1 oz (28g) | 161 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Banana | 1 medium (118g) | 105 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Cake | not in our table | 0 |
| Flaxseed | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 2 cups FOR THE CAKE:
- ½ cups Whole Wheat Flour
- 2 teaspoons Ground Flaxseed
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoons Baking Soda
- 4 whole Salt
- 4 whole Bananas, Very Ripe
- ½ cups Eggs
- ½ cups Vegetable Oil
- ½ teaspoons Brown Sugar
- ½ cups Vanilla Extract
- ¼ cups Chopped Pecans
- 1 stick FOR THE FROSTING:
- 2 cups Natural Peanut Butter
- ¼ cups Unsalted Butter - Soft