Wait until you try a bite of this banana cake recipe! It’s loaded with banana flavor and has the best extra thick layer of streusel on top!
I feel like I’m about to break some serious rules right now.
I’m sharing a banana recipe. In October.
I mean, you guys. This is PUMPKIN EVERYTHING season and here I sit. With a bunch of bananas.
So, if you really can’t handle this, go ahead and skip on over to my pumpkin coffee cake. It’s fine. I get it. That cake is one of the best, so I won’t complain.
Buttttt, if you’re just the tiniest bit tired of pumpkin and are maybe looking for something a little different, but still totally perfect for this time of year – I present you with this banana cake recipe.
This banana coffee cake has a nice thick layer of streusel on top, because who cares if there is cake, just give me the streusel. 😉
My kids fought me for this one, you guys. I had to double wrap it in plastic wrap and threaten them with bodily harm or they totally would have ate the whole cake in one sitting. Then there was me…trying to sneak a piece of streusel off the top every time I went into the kitchen. Which was nearly impossible because I had double wrapped the cake to keep myself from doing just that very thing. I know me so well sometimes. Dang it.
This banana cake recipe packs in as many bananas as possible!
Anyway! We all need an easy coffee cake recipe in our lives and this banana coffee cake is it! Trust me on that.
Please note that this is definitely not a light and airy sort of cake. This is more dense because I packed in as much banana as possible. If you’re having banana cake, then have some dang banana cake. 😉
I topped this off with a super simple vanilla glaze, but it isn’t totally necessary. It makes things pretty and fancy, but the cake is just as delicious without, so you do you.
For more banana goodness, check out my AMAZING banana bread recipe, banana ice cream, and my banana pound cake! They are to die for and totally worthy of waiting on your bananas to turn brown.
Banana Coffee Cake
Ingredients
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Instructions
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Brittney says
This turned out to taste very good. But I am not a natural born Baker. The recipe took double the time to actually cook and ended up burning my struessel which is my fav part. So I am very disappointed in that.
Karly says
Hi Brittney! Did you use the correct oven temperature and the right sized pan? The cake is very moist and packed with banana, so it’s supposed to be more dense than a traditional cake.
Jen says
Delicious! Made as written. Absolutely wonderful! I would not change a thing! Thank you!
Karly says
Thanks, Jen! Glad to hear it was a keeper! 🙂
Nancy Leary says
Waiting for the timer to go off. Just the thing for extra bananas and a need for sugar.
Karly says
Hope you loved it!
janet cole says
im making it as I type, cant wait for the outcome.
Karly says
Hope you love it!
Jenniferhg says
I made this twice last night. Exactly to recipe. Great cake, everyone loved it. I made one in a bundt pan and took to my niece and her boys. The bundt cake had to bake for 1 hour.
Marion skelly says
Keep the recipes coming
Stephenie says
Sadly was not a fan. Streusel was more chewy than streseul like/crisp. Cake was still jiggly/part raw at 25 mins, 35 mins… maybe too much banana?! Taste was alright though.
Karly says
Sorry to hear you weren’t a fan. The recipe calls for a ton of banana and is supposed to be very dense and thick, not like a traditional cake.
Patti Kumazawa says
This had a great flavor. However, the streusel made a huge mess. I will probably make it again, but with half the streusel and I’ll make the topping with cold butter.
Jason says
Looks amazing! Can’t wait to make these, thanks for posting the recipe.
Anna Davis says
You posted flour as an ingredient twice, which amount is used for the streusel and for the cake itself?
Karly says
Sorry about that – just recently switched to a new recipe card and it stripped out the formatting. It should all be easier to read now. 🙂
Natalie says
This cake looks so good! Tender moist and just what I need with my coffee this morning 🙂
Kim | Unrefined RD says
Oh my goodness, yes please!
marsha white says
You refer to a ‘tester’. Not sure, but do you refer it to be
a toothpick test?
Karly says
I normally use a toothpick. 🙂
Alison's Allspice says
I love to treat myself with coffee cake, and I’ve never seen it made with bananas – I must try! The streusel looks delicious!
Karly says
You’ll love that streusel on top! 🙂
Jodi says
I always have overripe bananas staring me in the face! I can’t wait to try this!
Karly says
Hope you love it!