05/25/2026
Forget banana bread. This is what your sad brown bananas actually deserve. π€π
Banana Bundt Cake with Brown Butter Glaze
Wet Ingredients:
* 3 large VERY ripe bananas (the ugly almost-black ones)
* 1 cup full-fat sour cream
* 1 1/2 cups golden sugar (or brown sugar)
* 3 large eggs (room temp)
* 2 tsp vanilla extract
* 1 cup unsalted butter
Dry Ingredients:
* 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 tsp baking soda
* 1/2 tsp baking powder
* 1 tsp salt
* 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 325Β°F.
- Grease your bundt pan REALLY well.
(Butter every crevice + light flour dusting, or baking spray.)
- Brown the butter then remove from heat and let cool 10β15 mins so it doesnβt scramble the eggs
- Mash bananas.
- Add:
* sour cream
* eggs
* Vanilla
- Whisk until smooth.
- In another bowl combine sugar and butter
- Add:
* flour
* baking soda
* baking powder
* salt
* cinnamon
- Add dry ingredients into wet. Fold until JUST combined. Do not overmix.
- Pour into prepared bundt pan. Tap gently on counter.
- Bake 55β70 minutes. Start checking around 55 mins. A toothpick should come out with moist crumbs, not wet batter.
- Let cool in pan 20β25 mins.
- Cool mostly before glazing.
Brown Butter Glaze
Ingredients
* 4 tbsp unsalted butter
* 1- 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
* 2β4 tbsp of cream (or more if needed)
* 1 tsp vanilla
* pinch of salt
Instructions
- Brown the butter same way as above.
- Let cool slightly.
- Whisk in:
* icing sugar
* vanilla
* salt
* milk/cream, a little at a time until pourable but thick
Pour over cake.
Let it drip dramatically because thatβs the point.
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