Banana Breakfast Cake is a delicious banana and cinnamon breakfast cake with a tasty glaze drizzled on top! Everyone loves when we have this for breakfast!
Banana Breakfast Cake is the best kind of breakfast because there’s just something wonderful about having a piece of cake for breakfast. I’m not sure if it’s how delicious it smells baking or how it warms the house up – probably a combination of the two. The blend of ripe bananas and cinnamon is perfect too- don’t skip the crumb topping!
How do you make a quick and easy icing to put on top of coffee cakes?
Use our favorite easy glaze recipe! Drizzle glaze- 3/4 cup powdered sugar + 1 TBSP melted butter + 2 tsp milk, all whisked together. It takes hardly any time and is just the right amount of glaze to make the perfect topping for that morning coffee cake!
Banana Cinnamon Breakfast Cake
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1/2 cup buttermilk (or 1/2 cup milk + 1/2 tsp lemon juice)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 ripe bananas, mashed
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp salt
Crumb Topping
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 cup quick oats
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9×13 or 8×11 glass pan with nonstick spray.
- In a large bowl, combine the eggs, sugar, melted butter, buttermilk and vanilla. Stir until combined. Add in bananas.
- Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Mix 1/3 of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, stirring just until combined. Repeat until ingredients are completely mixed. (Note: quick breads/ cakes like this do better if mixed by hand! Don’t over mix and it’s okay if there are a few lumps!)
- Pour batter in the prepared pan.
- To prepare the crumb topping, combine all ingredients except butter. Cut butter into small pieces and add to the mixture. Using a pastry cutter (or 2 forks) blend the ingredients until crumbly. Pour over top of batter in the pan.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes. Let cool and drizzle with a simple glaze- 3/4 cup powdered sugar + 1 TBSP melted butter + 2 tsp milk, all whisked together.
adapted from this recipe for Cinnamon Crumb Banana Bread
If you like this Banana Cinnamon Breakfast Cake check out a few of our other favorite breakfast recipes:
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1/2 cup buttermilk or 1/2 cup milk + 1/2 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 ripe bananas mashed
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Crumb Topping
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 cup quick oats
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts optional
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9x13 or 8x11 glass pan with nonstick spray.
- In a large bowl, combine the eggs, sugar, melted butter, buttermilk and vanilla. Stir until combined. Add in bananas.
- Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Mix 1/3 of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, stirring just until combined. Repeat until ingredients are completely mixed. (Note: quick breads/ cakes like this do better if mixed by hand! Don't over mix and it's okay if there are a few lumps!)
- Pour batter in the prepared pan.
- To prepare the crumb topping, combine all ingredients except butter. Cut butter into small pieces and add to the mixture. Using a pastry cutter (or 2 forks) blend the ingredients until crumbly. Pour over top of batter in the pan.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes. Let cool and drizzle with a simple glaze- 3/4 cup powdered sugar + 1 TBSP melted butter + 2 tsp milk, all whisked together.
Susan says
Wow! I would love to wake up to this baking in the oven. I can hardly wait to try it. Thanks for sharing.
Alice Temple says
Hello, could this recipe be made in a bundt pan?
Alison says
I’m sure it would work just fine! You may want to keep an eye on it and adjust the time accordingly.