This banana cake recipe with cream cheese frosting is your new go-to whenever ripe bananas show up on your counter. It’s the kind of cake that tricks people into thinking you worked way harder than you did—and who doesn’t love that? We’re talking soft, lightly sweetened cake with that real banana flavor (not the artificial kind, promise). It’s the kind of dessert you bring to a potluck and somehow everyone’s asking for the recipe before dessert plates are cleared. The cream cheese frosting? Let’s just say, if you know, you know. I make this cake when the weather’s gloomy, when guests drop by, or just when I need to clean out the fruit bowl. It never misses. It’s an easy banana cake that’s honestly a little dangerous—because you’ll find yourself going back for just one more forkful.