I love it when the baking Gods smile down.

I didn’t want to make anything complicated or fussy because I’m on vacation in Aruba. I also wanted to keep it reasonably healthy since every day is a bikini day here.

There’s no butter in the cake itself, just 1 egg, and I used banana-flavored Greek yogurt. I was shocked when I saw banana Chob for sale in an Aruban grocery store, and promptly snagged a couple. It’s my favorite yogurt for baking.

The cake is similar to the Banana Pudding Cake with Vanilla Caramel Glaze in my cookbook. However, this cake is slightly smaller, doesn’t call for pudding, and the glaze is even easier. To make the glaze, you can simply melt the butter or melt a vegan buttery-spread in the micro. But I prefer to brown it. If you’ve never browned butter before, read this tutorial or this or this.

The Cliff’s notes are to simply cook the butter until little brown specks appear, keep on swirling the pan, and don’t let the brown specks turn black. The process takes about 3 to 4 minutes and it’s easy. I don’t know why people make such a big deal over browning butter, but it really adds such another level of nutty, rich flavor and it’s 4 minutes very well spent.

Pour the buttery glaze over the soft, warm cake, and let it soak in. I made the cake at night, glazed, and covered the cake with foil. By morning the glaze had soaked in almost completely. It seeps into the nooks and crannies of the cake, and imparts such a comforting flavor. It makes an already moist and tender cake even more so.

If you need a little banana cake that you don’t have to drag your mixer out for, and takes just minutes to whisk together, this is the one. It’s soft, fluffy, and light, with just enough density to be satisfying.

If you’re like me, ripe bananas seem to multiply on the counter, and you can never have too many banana and banana recipes. I have 40+ Banana Bread and Banana Dessert Recipes. Add this one to the list.

Six-Banana Banana Bread – Six bananas in one loaf make this a strongly banana-flavored bread. No wimpy or lackluster banana flavor here Tried this recipe? Leave a review! Consider leaving a 5 star rating if you’ve made and loved one of my recipes!

Banana Bread with Vanilla Browned Butter Glaze – My favorite banana bread recipe when I have 2-3 bananas. Vanilla is used four times. It turns out moist and perfect every time, and the browned butter is wondeful. This is the most popular banana bread with readers

Zucchini Banana Bread with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting – Just in time for summer zucchini season

Pumpkin Banana Bread with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Glaze – I’ll never tire of pumpkin recipes and this one pairs pumpkin bread with banana bread for a soft, tender loaf that’s subtly pumpkin and molasses flavored

Spiced Apple Banana Bundt Cake with Vanilla Caramel Glaze – The glaze is my favorite glaze I have on my entire site. The easy banana-apple cake comes together in minutes with a whisk, and the glaze pushes it over the top

Carrot Pineapple Banana Bread with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting – My favorite non-traditional banana bread that’s more like bread masquerading as cake. It crosses banana bread with carrot cake. Full of carrots, pineapple, raisins, yogurt, and is moist and soft beyond words and the frosting is the icing on the cake

Banana Zucchini Pudding Cake with Vanilla Browned Butter Glaze – A moist, dense, easy cake that’s falling-apart-soft and tender from the pudding. Golden, buttery, sweet and full of little bits of texture with a delightful glaze to top it off

Banana Bread Brownies with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting – If you crossed the most decadent, rich, fudgy, moist brownie with a soft loaf of banana bread, this is what you’d get

Browned Butter Buttermilk Banana Bread with Strawberry Butter – Or try with peaches, nectarines, mangoes, blueberries, or a favorite seasonal or frozen fruit. The flavors of browned butter and buttermilk add richness, softness, and moisture. The strawberry butter makes it that much better

Pineapple Coconut Oil Banana Bread – Buttermilk, bananas & coconut oil keep this bread super moist, tender & so soft it’s bouncey

Banana Yogurt Muffins and Little Banana Bread Loaf – Soft, tender, fluffy, easy and the yogurt keeps them extra moist Fluffy Vegan Coconut Oil Banana Muffins and Mini Muffins – They remind me of mini donuts but they’re healthy, soft, fluffy, easy, and perfect if you happen to run out of eggs

Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Miracle Cookies (vegan, GF) – NO: Butter, Sugar, Flour, Eggs, Oil, or Salt Added. They really are a miracle

Browned Butter Caramel and Butterscotch Bars – Three of my favorite flavors, in one easy, no-mixer bar recipe

40+ Banana Bread and Banana Dessert Recipes

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