If you love homemade cake recipes, try my Yellow Cake, Chocolate Trifle, White Texas Sheet Cake, or Sticky Toffee Pudding!
Why I love this cake:
Easy – This simple banana bundt cake uses basic ingredients I always have on hand and is really quick to make. If you don’t have over ripe bananas, follow my tutorial for how to ripen bananas. Texture – The texture is similar to banana bread, but it is slightly softer and more cake-like. It is also sweeter than banana bread. Cream Cheese Frosting – The addition of homemade cream cheese frosting makes this cake perfect. Serve it for special brunches, bridal and baby showers, or dessert.
How to make Banana Bundt Cake:
Make the Batter: Combine dry ingredients in one bowl (flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt). In a separate bowl, beat the butter and brown sugar then add the eggs and vanilla. Add Bananas: Mix in mashed bananas and buttermilk. Slowly add the dry ingredients, stirring gently, just until fully incorporated. Bake: Pour into greased bundt pan (check out my tips below) and bake for 40-45 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes in the pan. Then gently run a thin butter knife around the top edges of the bundt pan and invert cake onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely. Frost: Once cooled, frost with cream cheese frosting. I use the large round top of a pastry bag to pipe the frosting in lines, but you can frost it with the back of the spoon, all over the top of the banana bread bundt cake, if you’d like.
Storing and Freezing Instructions:
To Store: Cover cake and store at room temperature for 2-3 days or in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. To Freeze: Wrap the cooled cake in plastic wrap, then aluminum foil, and freeze for up to 3 months. If the cake is frosted, flash freeze it for 30 minutes to help set the frosting, then cover and freeze. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator, and bring to room temperature before serving.
Recipe Variations:
Healthier: Double my recipe for Skinny Banana Bread and pour it into a greased bundt pan. Bake as instructed. Chocolate Chip Banana Bundt Cake: Fold in 1 cup of chocolate chips before pouring in bundt pan. Banana Blueberry Bundt Cake: Roll 1 cup of blueberries in flour then fold into the batter before pouring in the bundt pan. Banana Nut Bundt Cake: Fold in 2/3 cup of chopped nuts into the batter, then pour into bundt pan. You can also sprinkle some chopped nuts on top after you frost it!
More Bundt Cakes:
Nothing Bundt Cake Chocolate Peppermint Bundt Cake Red Velvet Bundt Cake Chocolate Bundt Cake Apple Bundt Cake Homemade Rum Cake Poppyseed Cake Chocolate Macaroon Cake
Recipe adapted from Hungry Hungry Highness.
I originally shared this recipe April 2019. Updated May 2021 and February 2024. This post contains affiliate links.
