If you love banana cake and need a quick semi-homemade dessert, this is perfect.
Use up those old dark-colored bananas no one wants to eat and turn them into a decadent delicious cake!
Actually, I have also topped this cake with fresh bananas and a little ice cream caramel topping, it's a really sweet treat!
The cake is semi-homemade, right? It has fresh fruit in it using a cake mix and tastes like a scratch cake!
If you are new to baking or simply don't like to bake this is going to be your favorite recipe of all time!
It sure is easy to make and takes hardly any time at all.
You do not need any baking skills for this one.
We love easy doctored cake mix recipes like this one along with Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix Cake, Carrot Cake That Taste Like Scratch Cake, Semi-Homemade Red Velvet Cake, and one of our all-time easy favorites Mock Cassata Italian Cake Mix Cake.
One other thing, I love using this batter for breakfast-style muffins with butter!
I can even fancy frosted cupcakes with these and everyone loves them.
Scroll down for this easy recipe, the perfect solution to using up old ripe ugly bananas!
Easy Decadent Cake!
Who doesn't love easy recipes?
This is so quick and easy that your family and friends will be begging for this moist semi-homemade recipe.
I love how just a few ingredients transformed a plain ordinary cake mix into a decadent dessert, you just have to try this one!
Toppings and Optional Serving Ideas
- serve with fresh banana slices, caramel ice cream topping, and whipped cream
- before baking add butterscotch chips
- frost with maple frosting and bacon bits
- add dried pineapple and coconut to the batter
- after baking dust with powdered sugar and a mixture of cinnamon sugar
- add 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice to the batter
- use another flavored cake mix and instant pudding-like chocolate and chocolate pudding, spice cake with french vanilla instant pudding, or butterscotch
- serve the cake with a variety of freshly sliced fruits and whipped cream
- bake the cake in heart-shaped or character-shaped pans
Tips for Making Banana Cake Mix Cake
- preheat the oven before baking
- Add coconut, chopped cherries, chocolate chips or chopped candy bars to the batter before baking or sprinkled on top of the frosting
- keep the cake covered for up to 4 days after cooling
- Use another flavored cake mix, spice, white, strawberry, pineapple, coconut, and even chocolate
- Cake can be frozen for up to 3 months
- This cake is perfect for loaf pans and making ice cream cake (just cool the loaf slice in half fill with your favorite ice cream (we like banana split ice cream) wrap and freeze
Ingredients you will need to make Banana Cake Mix Cake
Scroll to the recipe card for exact measurements- cake mix of yellow, spice, white, chocolate, coconut, pineapple even lemon will work
- instant banana cream pudding or vanilla
- bananas
- eggs
- water
- oil
Pans to Use for Banana Cake Mix Cake(this is how much it will make)
- 24 cupcakes
- 12 cupcakes plus 1 9x 9 square or round pan
- bundt pan
- 13 x 9 sheet cake
- 3 - 9-inch loaf pans
- bake the cake in heart-shaped or character-shaped pans
Tools For Making Banana Cake Mix Cake
- Bake this recipe in any of the following:
- Bundt Pan
- Disposable Aluminum pan sheet pan or any baking sheet
- Cupcake tin
- Muffin pan
- Paper cupcake liners (Optional)
- Tools:
- Measuring cups
- Measuring spoons
- Bowls
- Electric mixer
- Cooking Spray
- Spoon or Spatula
Try Some Other Recipes Using A Doctored Cake Mix
1960s Pistachio Cake Mix Pound Cake
Easy Pumpkin Spice Cake Mix Cookies
Cake Mix Blueberry Muffins
Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies
4 Ingredient Pumpkin Cake Mix Cake
Pin for Later Banana Cake Mix Cake
Doctored Cake Mixed with Bananas
The easiest cake in a hurry starts with a mix and is perfect for potlucks, a quick thank you to that neighbor next door, or that unexpected company.
Every time I make this cake someone asks for the recipe, it's light, flavorful, and moist not to mention versatile with toppings and how to serve it.
If you're not a big fan of baking cakes, this is the one to add to your recipe collection especially when you have overripe bananas to use up!
Banana Cake Mix Cake
Yield: 12
This is an easy doctored cake mix banana cake that is perfect for any quick hosting party, or picnic and even great on game day for a great dessert. The cake is so versatile and can be served plain, with fresh fruits and cream, or frosted! Check out this easy banana cake using just a few ingredients!
Ingredients
- 1 cake mix yellow (15.25 size) or use another flavor you like
- 1 box instant banana cream pudding or vanilla
- 3 mashed small bananas
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup of water
- 1/4 cup oil
- Optional additions: 2/3 cup of any: coconut, chocolate chips or other flavored chips, chopped nuts of any kind, chopped candy of choice like Reese, Snickers, etc.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare the pan you are using from our suggestions.
- Place in a large mixing bowl and beat for around 4 minutes with an electric beater.
- Pour the batter into a prepared pan.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 350-degree hot oven until the middle comes out clean with a toothpick around 50 to 55 minutes.
- Cupcakes around 20 minutes.
- 9 x 9 pan around 25 minutes.
- Cool completely.
- Options Also Refer to Notes:
- Top with real whipped cream and fresh fruits and refrigerate or use cream cheese frosting.
- Dust the cake with powdered sugar after cooling or/and cinnamon sugar mixture
- Frost this with a light glaze using powdered sugar and water if it's a bundt cake.
- Check out my other suggestions above for serving ideas.
Notes
Pans to Use for Banana Cake Mix Cake(this is how much it will make)
- 24 cupcakes
- 12 cupcakes plus 1 9x 9 square or round pan
- bundt pan
- 13 x 9 sheet cake
- 3 - 9-inch loaf pans
- bake the cake in heart-shaped or character-shaped pans
Tips for Making Banana Cake Mix Cake
- preheat the oven before baking
- Add coconut, chopped cherries, chocolate chips or chopped candy bars to the batter before baking or sprinkled on top of the frosting
- keep the cake covered for up to 4 days after cooling
- Use another flavored cake mix, spice, white, strawberry, pineapple, coconut, and even chocolate
- Cake can be frozen for up to 3 months
- This cake is perfect for loaf pans and making ice cream cake (just cool the loaf slice in half fill with your favorite ice cream (we like banana split ice cream) wrap and freeze
Toppings and Optional Serving Ideas
- serve with fresh banana slices, caramel ice cream topping, and whipped cream
- before baking add butterscotch chips
- frost with maple frosting and bacon bits
- add dried pineapple and coconut to the batter
- after baking dust with powdered sugar and a mixture of cinnamon sugar
- add 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice to the batter
- use another flavored cake mix and instant pudding-like chocolate and chocolate pudding, spice cake with french vanilla instant pudding, or butterscotch
- serve the cake with a variety of freshly sliced fruits and whipped cream
- bake the cake in heart-shaped or character-shaped pans
Banana Cake Mix Cake Pin for later
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Disclosure: This recipe was originally posted to this blog in 2015. It was edited and re-published in 2020.
It has turned out really beautiful, Claudia.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty! So easy! Thank you for delicious and easy - that's my life these days. Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteThis is fantastic! Not only tasty but so quick and easy to make.
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I love the bundt pattern. Looks like such an easy way to make cake with these box mixes.
ReplyDeleteWhat a super-simple but delicious looking cake! Banana cake is my favourite - looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a pretty quick and easy hassle-free cake recipe! I like the bundt version more. They look pretty. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteLove how easy this is. I'm not a huge baker, so I'm always looking for shortcuts
ReplyDeletelike this!
Love Love Love this cake!!! Excellent texture, moisture, and sweetness. Thank you for a great recipe!
ReplyDeleteI love super easy recipes. Especially cakes, since I only make them once in a while ... I don't want to work from scratch, but I love that flavor... thanks for the "hack"
ReplyDeleteWhat a delightfully simple cake mix! I love banana in baked goods and this sounds simple and absolutely delicious!
ReplyDeleteThis is the absolute BEST banana cake recipe! I like how easy it is, and I also love the fresh banana! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe
ReplyDeleteMade this for the family and it was a hit!
ReplyDeleteI can't find an 18.25 oz. cake mix anymore. Will this recipe work with the new downsized cake mix? My family loves banannas, and this cake sounds outrageously delicious to me, so I'd like to treat all of us to this lovely dessert. Thank you. :-)
ReplyDeleteyes I actually just noticed that myself and just made this with the 15.25 and will update this recipe thank you so much for bringing this to my attention :)
DeleteDo the baking times change for the different size pans?
ReplyDeleteIf it's not a thick bundt style yes I would do 35 to 40 just using the toothpick method when the center looks solid and not shakey
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