Banana Mug Cake for a Quick & Easy Homemade Treat

Craving a quick and delicious treat? Try this banana mug cake recipe! Whether you’re short on time or just want a homemade dessert fix, this single-serving banana bread is the perfect solution. Made with ripe bananas and other healthy ingredients, it’s an easy way to enjoy the classic flavors of banana bread in a fraction of the time. Grab your favorite mug and get ready to indulge in warm, banana goodness!

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Banana Mug Cake for One

Bananas are an impressive fruit.

They are almost completely necessary to make a smoothie creamy and delicious.

Bananas add natural sweetness to baking recipes, and structure to banana muffins, cupcakes, and loaves.

When I want to make a healthy mug cake, or cut down on added sugars, I turn to bananas.

(I also have an amazing apple mug cake recipe that is fruit-sweetened too.)

This banana mug cake recipe is a great way to make delicious use of that ripe banana sitting on your counter.

Here’s what you need to make this warm banana bread for one…

Banana Mug Cake Ingredients

a ripe banana

egg

almond flour

melted butter (or coconut oil)

baking soda

cinnamon

Optional (but always recommended!: chocolate chips

Now, only an important answer for when you’re making homemade banana bread:

How Ripe Should Bananas Be for Banana Bread?

Don’t be afraid of brown spots – that’s exactly what you want when you are baking banana bread!

The more brown spots on your bananas, the sweeter they are, so the sweeter they will make your banana bread.

Especially in healthy banana bread recipes like this banana mug cake, you want to make sure your bananas are quite ripe.

That’s because this banana bread recipe doesn’t use any added sugar for sweetness. The sweet taste comes from the banana, so the riper, the better.

Banana recipes on Best Mug Cakes:

• 3-Ingredient Banana Mug Cake
• Healthy Single Serving Microwave Banana Bread
• Paleo Banana Bread

Banana Mug Cake Tips and Subs

In a small mixing bowl, mash your banana with either the back of a fork, or a pastry cutter (I highly recommend getting one of these if you don’t already have one).

You don’t have to spend forever on this, but you don’t want any big chunks of banana; you want it mashed well.

If you would like this microwave banana mug cake sweeter, you can add a tablespoon of sugar: coconut sugar, brown sugar, regular sugar, erythritol, etc. Any granulated sugar will work.

Microwave your banana cake for 90 seconds, and then check to see if it’s done. If it needs a bit more time to set, add 15 seconds at a time until it’s done.

Top with chocolate chips, a drizzle of peanut butter, sliced banana, whipped cream, ice cream, etc.

Gluten-Free Banana Cake

This recipe is already gluten-free since it’s made with almond flour.

If you can’t have nuts and need a nut-free banana bread recipe, you can use an all-purpose gluten-free flour like this one.

The banana bread will be a bit less sweet, and will have less protein.

You might need to add 1-2 tablespoons more of the gluten-free flour mix because of how it absorbs liquid.

Vegan Banana Mug Cake

This banana bread recipe doesn’t work well as a vegan version.

I tried replacing the egg with egg replacer or a flax egg, and it just doesn’t taste super delicious. After lots of trial and error, I made a yummy vegan banana bread that is also gluten-free and paleo.

You can find that vegan recipe here.

Okay, let’s make this banana mug cake!

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