Banana Coffee Cake Recipe

Best Breakfast Banana Coffee Cake

I’ve been making this Banana Bread Coffee Cake for years. It’s my mom’s homemade coffee cake combined with her banana bread recipe. Sounds amazing, right? If you haven’t tried coffee cake made with bananas you are in for a treat – it’s the best of two baked treats combined to make one amazing coffee cake.

It should come as no surprise that I am addicted to coffee cake. I have made so many versions: carrot cake, peanut butter, cinnamon roll pie, pumpkin, and zucchini. But this easy banana coffee cake is one of my all-time favorites. I mean, it’s my mom’s so maybe I’m biased but every time I make it everyone fights over the last piece. That’s always a good review!

Use Up Overripe Bananas

Am I the only one who is thrilled when there are brown overripe bananas on the counter? When it happens, all I can think about is making this banana coffee cake recipe. I usually stack the deck in my favor and buy more bananas than we can eat in a week just so I have an excuse to make it.

People have asked my why they have to use overripe ones for banana recipes – can’t I just use ones that look pretty without all those brown splotches? Nope, you want bananas past their prime – the uglier the better!

Those brown, spotty bananas do all kinds of good things for your baked goods: 

• The add a ton of banana flavor! Letting your bananas overripen develops a stronger flavor because the sugars concentrate as the bananas age.
• They also break down easier. As they age, they soften so when you’re ready to use them they mash easily.
• They also add a ton of moisture, which is what you want. Dry banana cake or coffee cake is so not good.

Ingredients for Banana Bread Coffee Cake

This coffee cake with banana starts with the cake batter, which is so easy to make. 

I love to make this banana cake with browned butter and have included the steps in the recipe card in case you’ve never made it. It’s an extra step but gives the cake a nutty, caramelized flavor that is so good. If you’re in a hurry, regular melted butter works, too!

Learn how to make brown butter here!

• Sugar
• Browned butter
• Mashed overripe bananas
• Egg
• Milk
• Flour
• Baking powder
• Salt

How to make Coffee Cake with Banana

• Combine the sugar, browned butter, and egg in a large bowl. Add the milk and mashed bananas and stir until combined. In a separate bowl whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined. 
• Pour the batter into a prepared pan. You can use a 9×9” square baking dish or a 10” pie pan.

Cinnamon Streusel Topping

Once you’ve made the banana cake batter just mix up the crumble topping in a bowl. Here’s what you need:

• Brown sugar
• Flour
• Cinnamon
• Browned butter (or regular melted butter)
• Pecans or walnuts (optional!)

Once mixed just sprinkle all of that buttery, sugary goodness over the top of the cake batter in the pan. 

Pop the coffee cake in the oven and bake it for 25 to 30 minutes at 350°F and enjoy the amazing scent of bananas, butter, and cinnamon as it wafts from the oven.