Why You’ll Love this Banana Microwave Bread

Craving a slice of warm banana bread, but don’t feel like baking an entire loaf? Try this super easy microwave mug cake recipe! It only takes a few minutes and results in a perfectly tender treat with the banana flavor you know and love.

This recipe includes the option to add chopped walnuts to the batter and also shows you how to make a homemade caramel sauce for even more indulgent goodness. It’s especially great if you just have one banana that you need to use up!

I enjoy these hot out of the oven when the chocolate chips are nice and melty. But, they are also great days later!

Ingredients

There is nothing fancy about the ingredients in this recipe. I use a mix of white and brown sugar because I love the taste of brown sugar. If you don’t have any in the house, it’s fine to use all white sugar.

I love that this is a one bowl recipe. Aside from mashing the bananas and slicing the fresh strawberries, the whole recipe is just dumping things into a bowl and mixing. You’ve got this!

Choosing Ingredients

As with any banana cupcakes, muffins, or cookies, the bananas are the most important part of the recipe. The more ripe they are, the sweeter the bread will be. Wait for banana skins to be almost black for the best results!

If you love banana bread (like my strawberry banana bread) and banana cookies, you’ll love these banana oatmeal chocolate chip muffins. The banana flavor really comes through and there are chocolate chips in every bite!

This is a perfect recipe to make if you have some overripe bananas sitting around in your house.

Ingredients

This recipe uses all basic pantry ingredients that you may already have in your house.

Hummingbird cupcakes are more dense then a typical cupcake and they work really well as brunch item like my banana oatmeal chocolate chip muffins.

What Is Fruit Leather?

Fruit leather is simply pureed fruit that is dehydrated on a sheet until it becomes a chewy snack. The store-bought version is often called a fruit roll-up since it easily rolls up for storage.

What is Bananas Foster French Toast?

Bananas Foster is an amazing, simple dessert where warm bananas fried in brown sugar, butter, and a little rum are served over ice cream. To give the French toast a Bananas Foster flavor, I add caramelized bananas to sweet brioche.

If you’ve never had caramelized bananas, you are in for a treat! Bananas are naturally sweet, but once they are caramelized, they take on a more robust flavor and form a banana-flavored sauce that you can pour over just about anything!

When I developed the recipe, I worried that the banana might throw off the frosting texture. But, it didn’t take too much banana to impart enough banana flavor and the texture was spot on. It’s perfectly pipeable!