Why This Recipe Works

More Bananas: You’ll love this easy banana bundt cake recipe because it’s a great way to use up several overripe bananas at once.
Bigger than regular Banana Bread: This recipe makes a bigger banana bread, made in a 10-inch bundt pan.
Great flavor: We mean, you can’t beat the flavor of bananas combined with cinnamon in the cake.
Breakfast or dessert: This recipe is perfect for breakfast or dessert.
Make ahead: This is a great make-ahead recipe. Make it a day ahead and keep it for a special breakfast the next day.
Beautiful Cake: Bundt pans make beautiful cakes! They are ideal for baking cakes that are not frosted.

Can You Make Banana Bread In a Bundt Pan?

Yes, you can definitely make Banana Bread in a bundt pan. If you use a 10-inch bundt pan it will take more time to bake and twice the batter compared to banana bread made in a loaf pan.

A bundt pan is a pan with fluted or grooved sides, and it mostly has a central tube that leaves a hole in the center of a cake.

The Ingredients

Here are some notes on key ingredients:

Bananas: Start with overripe bananas if you can find them, but if your bananas are just ripe and not overripe, you could still use them. Brown bananas make the best banana cake.

Sugar: This recipe doesn’t call for lots of sugar because the bananas already add sweetness to the cake.

Milk: Use whole milk, 2 percent milk, or buttermilk.

Spices: This recipe calls for cinnamon for flavor but you could also add other spices like ground nutmeg or ground cloves.

For the full list of ingredients with measurements, check out the recipe card below.

Other ways

Try the following variations with this banana cake recipe:

Banana Nut Bread: Add chopped nuts like walnuts or peanuts for banana nut bread.
Banana Yogurt Bread: Substitute the milk for yogurt for Banana Yogurt Bread.
Chocolate Chips: Add chocolate chips for Chocolate Chip Banana Bread.
Blueberries: Add blueberries for Blueberry Banana Bread.

Also, check out our Southern Lemon Pound Cake Recipe, Perfect Plain Cake, or Fluffy Yogurt Cake.

How it comes together

1. First, combine the wet ingredients. In a medium bowl, mash overripe bananas into a paste. Add milk and mix.

2. In a large bowl, cream together sugar and butter. Add in room temperature eggs, vanilla extract, and the banana milk mixture and mix.

3. Add the dry ingredients, that’s the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon to the banana mixture. Mix to form a batter.

4. Pour the batter into a greased bundt pan and bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Turn onto a wire rack to cool.

You can serve this Banana Bundt Cake as is, or you can make some cream cheese frosting or a cream cheese glaze to go with the cooled cake. It is satisfying either way! Leftovers store well in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Also, check out this Vanilla Pound Cake and Southern Lemon Pound Cake Recipe.

Recipe FAQs

Yield: 15 servings
Prep: 30 minutes
Cook: 1 hour
Total: 1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients

6 overripe bananas, medium to large bananas
1 cup whole milk (250 ml)
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
2/3 cup granulated sugar
4 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour (375 grams)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon powder

Cream Cheese Frosting

8 oz cream cheese, softened
8 tablespoons butter, softened
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Method

Rub a 10-inch bundt pan with butter. Pour about a tablespoon of flour into the pan. Shake the pan around so it is completely coated in the flour. Pour out the excess flour from the pan.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degress C).
Peel the bananas and place into a mixing bowl. Mash into paste using a fork or potato masher. Add the milk to the mashed bananas and mix to combine.
Combine the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Beat together using a hand mixer until fluffy (you can do this using an electric beater or a fork).
Add the eggs, the banana-milk mixture and vanilla extract into the butter and sugar and mix until just combined.
Add in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon powder. Mix until just combined.
Pour the mixture into the prepared bundt pan and bake for about 1 hour until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
Let the cake cool in the baking pan for 10 minutes then turn onto a wire rack and let it cool completely.
Serve the cake as it or let it cool completely then spread the cream cheese frosting on top before serving.
Beat together butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar and vanilla and beat until creamy. Spread over the cooled banana bread. The cake will take about half the frosting so save the rest in the fridge to use on other desserts.