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!

This cake would be great with any topping, but the the whiskey sauce makes it extra special. There’s even a little whiskey in the batter to give the cake itself a hint of that flavor.

Ingredients

This recipe uses mostly basic baking ingredients. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you gather them:

For the full experience, top the cupcakes with butterscotch frosting and drizzle them with butterscotch sauce!

Ingredients

Cupcake Ingredients

Most of the ingredients in this recipe are basic pantry items. Below are a few notes to consider as you select them.

Butterscotch is a type of caramel that is made with brown sugar instead of white sugar and it is always made with butter (regular caramel sometimes has butter, but not always). The sauce has a distinct flavor that will remind you of butterscotch candies.

Ingredients and Equipment

This recipe is made with just 5 simple ingredients: butter, brown sugar, heavy whipping cream, vanilla extract, and salt.

This is one of my favorite cheesecakes (not surprising since I love chocolate turtles so much), and I can’t wait for you to try it!

Ingredients and Equipment

The crust of this dessert is made with flour, pecan pieces, brown sugar, unsalted butter, and ground cinnamon.

This recipe was taken (with permission) right out of the book Sally’s Candy Addiction [paid link]. Sally McKenny, the author and blogger behind Sally’s Baking Addiction, created this fantastic book that’s a treasure trove of recipes for any candy lover. I found her caramel recipe incredibly approachable and perfect for these turtle candies.

This caramel buttercream frosting is wonderful as a frosting for cupcakes or cakes and can be made with homemade or store-bought caramel sauce.

Ingredients

To make caramel buttercream, you’ll need:

Equipment and Ingredients

The caramel icing is perfect as a thick coating on top of the caramel cupcakes. For an extra decadent dessert, I make them stuffed cupcakes by also filling them with caramel icing!

The yellow cupcakes require typical baking ingredients:

Making it the old fashioned southern way takes time, and it’s totally worth the effort.

Be thankful that it takes about an hour to make – if it didn’t, you’d be making it and eating it way too often!

There are a few types of gooey butter bar (or as we say here in St. Louis, gooey butter cake) bakers: those who make yeasty cake-like gooey butter bars, those who prepare a “cheater” version made with cake mix and cream cheese, and those who bake a from-scratch version made with evaporated milk. I prefer the last option and, judging from the results of my informal Facebook survey, most of you prefer bars when they are covered in salted caramel!

Since I know you can’t all make it to St. Louis, I made you some salted caramel gooey butter bars here on the blog!