Chocolate Banana Cake with Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 8-inch baking pans with cooking spray.

Combine all-purpose flour white sugar whole wheat flour cocoa powder baking powder baking soda and salt in a large bowl.

Stir mashed bananas buttermilk egg whites applesauce egg and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract together in a separate bowl. Add gradually to the flour mixture mixing until batter is just combined.

Divide batter evenly between the prepared cake pans.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean 30 to 35 minutes. Cool in the pans for 30 minutes.

Combine cream cheese peanut butter confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until frosting is creamy.

Run a rubber spatula around the edges of the cooled cakes. Grease a baking sheet lightly with cooking spray. Invert cake pans onto the baking sheet; tap bottoms lightly to release cakes.

Spread frosting onto the cake layers. Stack layers; frost top and sides. Cut into 8 slices. Garnish with banana slices.