This is absolutely, hands down, the BEST Cake Mix Banana Bread Recipe that I have EVER had. I am not even joking a little bit. I would not joke about banana bread.
I have been making banana bread for a long time. With cream cheese, sour cream, baking soda, no baking soda, trying to find the perfect recipe. Yesterday, on my Facebook page, a reader Patty, mentioned banana bread made from a yellow cake mix. Huh?
I started asking around and was shocked that my sister had such a recipe tucked away from a church event a while ago and never had the chance to make it. The rest is history.
I had a pile of melting bananas, and so I might have added a little more banana then called for, but that turned out to be ok. The recipe made 2 loaves and they lasted exactly 4 1/2 minutes after I took these pictures.
Cake Mix Banana Bread
Ingredients
1 Yellow Cake Mix
1 Stick Melted Butter
3 Eggs
3 Mashed Bananas
Directions
Preheat oven to 350. Melt butter. In a separate bowl add cake mix, eggs and mashed bananas. Beat in melted butter and mix well. You can add 1 cup of walnuts if you like nuts in your bread. My kids don’t 🙁 Pour into 2 greased loaf pans and bake for about 45 minutes until cooked through.
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Just made these tonight. Only have one loaf pan so made muffins…they are beautiful and held up nicely. Taste delicious! Thanks!
My Mom has been making her banana bread this way. It is so good and moist. Thanks for sharing. Its a really good way to do banana bread! come visit me sometime! http://www.lifeawayfromtheofficechair.blogspot.com
Well dang! Who knew and I cannot wait to try this. Thanks for sharing. It looks delicious.
What a great banana bread recipe! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
This looks like a great Banana Bread Tiffany. Hope you are having a fantastic weekend and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday!
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I made these a couple of nights ago and I don’t have any loaf pans so I made muffins instead. It took 20-25 minutes in the oven and made 18 muffins. They were delicious! Thank you for this super easy recipe. I am definitely making these again!!!
I too have a pile of melting bananas, as well as some extra yellow cake mixes. Think I’ll try this tomorrow morning!
I followed recipe except, I added blueberries too. Yummy!
Do you substitute butter for apple sauce to save on calories?
You totally could!
How much apple sauce would you use in place of the butter???
1/2 cup Unsweetened applesauce. I use it in place of oil whenever I bake using a packaged mix! Provides the moistened without the calories!
I just pulled one out of the oven and “tested” it ^_^. The recipe I used is similar to yours but even more simple: cake mix, 2 eggs, 4 mashed bananas. I used a spice cake mix instead of yellow and it is pretty darn good if I do say so myself! Can’t wait to try yours, though. 🙂
This reminds of how my mother would make her muffins, the texture was similar to cornbread but tasted 10x better! I think this recipe would go great with macadamian nuts or any kind of nuts really. Thanks for the share!
Would this work with zucinni?
I bet it would!
My husband absolutely loved this recipe. Also, I hate banana bread and ate 1 1/2 muffins!!!!! Anyway, I’m glad to have a simple and delicious banana bread recipe now!
try with banana cake mix too for an extra banana kick…really yummy. I like to make a peanutbutter drizzle when I am making for neighbors or as gifts, but I am learning to ask about nut allergies first……..sigh…. if not peanutbutter a cinnamon drizzle is very good 😉
How did you make the PB drizzle? Sounds yummy!
love this…. and so easy!!!
The BEST banana bread ever! So good, I threw out all my other recipes – and I had some favorites i.e., my moms and my aunts!
I don’t ever comment on recipes unless I try them. This one is very good! So quick and easy! I added an extra banana, walnuts and cinnamon! Yum!
This is a great recipe. Tried it again with lemon cake mix. Yum! Trying out today with carrot cake mix.
have a batch of the regular baking in the oven now. then I mixed up a batched with a pineapple cake mix and added the nuts. didn’t put nuts in the first batch hubby doesn’t like nuts. cant wait to try.