Banana and Nutella cake – a delicious bake swirled with Nutella! Use your store-cupboard ingredients and bananas from your fruit bowl and make this simple yet delicious cake.
My latest bake is a delicious marbled-effect Banana and Nutella cake. It is very easy to make and it smells delicious while baking.
The marbled Nutella swirls on top are one of my favourite things about this cake. It looks great even served naked!!
Are you addicted to Nutella too?! Banana cake is always a great way to use up bananas that are past their best, and adding Nutella can only make it better, right?I know Nutella doesn’t ever last long in my house, it is a real favourite here. This is an easy banana cake recipe with great results!
Ingredients
Here is what you will need for this recipe. Grab the quantities from the recipe card at the bottom of the post!
- caster sugar
- butter
- eggs
- bananas
- plain flour
- baking powder
- salt
- Nutella
Method
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees C (fan oven) / 350 degrees F.
- Cream the butter together with the sugar, and then break in the eggs and mix well.
- Stir in the mashed bananas.
- Add the flour, baking powder and salt. Stir till well combined but don’t over mix.
- Put the mixture in a greased cake tin. I used a deep 8 inch tin.
- Drop in the spoons of Nutella and use a knife to marble it in the cake batter.
- Bake for around 45-50 mins or until a skewer comes away clean. If it browns too much on top, cover the cake with foil for the last ten minutes.
Freezing
You can freeze most cakes successfully and this one works well too.
One tip I would say is to cut slices and then wrap those in clingfilm and foil, then you can defrost just what you want for a snack!
Freeze for up to 2 months max.
Can you make this cake in a slow cooker?
Yes you can. If you are making in this slow cooker it will take around 1.5 hrs on high.
Also make sure you check out my recipes for slow cooker pumpkin banana bread and slow cooker blueberry banana bread!
Serving
I serve this as a deep cake with no filling or icing, it is delicious that way.
You could also cut it in half and fill with whipped cream and chocolate ganache or cover it in Nutella buttercream for an incredibly indulgent treat.
I love to see the marbled top so serve mine just as it is!
Quick tip for ripening bananas
If you don’t have any ripe bananas but the craving for banana cake has hit, bake them for 10-15 minutes with the skins on in an ovenproof dish, turning once, and you’ll have soft bananas ready for baking!
Get the recipe for this delicious cake below. It is very popular indeed on Pinterest right now, so make sure you give it a try!
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Recipe
Banana and Nutella Cake
Ingredients
- 115 g unsalted butter
- 170 g caster sugar
- 2 medium eggs
- 3 ripe bananas mashed
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 300 g plain flour or use self-raising flour plus 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- 5-6 teaspoons Nutella
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180℃ (fan oven)/ 350℉.
- Cream the butter together with the sugar, and then break in the eggs and mix well.115 g unsalted butter, 170 g caster sugar, 2 medium eggs
- Stir in the bananas.3 ripe bananas
- Add the flour, baking powder and salt. Stir till well combined but don't over mix.2 tsp baking powder, 300 g plain flour, 1 pinch of salt
- Put the mixture in a greased cake tin. I used a deep 8 inch tin.
- Drop in the spoons of Nutella and use a knife to marble it in the cake batter.5-6 teaspoons Nutella
- Bake for around 45-50 mins or until a skewer comes away clean. If it browns too much on top, cover the cake with foil for the last ten minutes.
Notes
Valerie Edkins says
Hi made this on Sunday turned out great. My first attempt at using the slow cooker for baking a cake. Only problem I had which was my fault I switched on the cooker with cake mix at 10am. Should have been ready by 11-30am unfortunately I had to go out and didn’t get home until 13-45. The cake had not burnt and had risen perfectly but it was a bit dry and harder near the bottom of the cake. So next time I will try to fix my timings better. Thanks Lucy.
bakingqueen74 says
That’s great Valerie!
Marilyn says
Can you freeze this? I love making it but with only 2 of us at home now, we end up wasting some. I tried halving the ingredients but it was a disaster. Thanks
bakingqueen74 says
Yes, you can freeze most cakes successfully and this one works well too. One tip I would say is to cut slices and then wrap those in clingfilm and foil, then you can defrost just what you want for a snack! I normally freeze for up to 2 months max.
Charlotte says
I’m very old-fashioned and love my recipe books so I rarely try ideas online. I wanted a banana cake today but also wanted to add Nutella and found this. It was very simple to make and satisfying to bake. Thank you. My (grown up) children tried it and were very impressed. I will make it again soon I’m sure.
bakingqueen74 says
That’s great Charlotte, thanks for leaving your comment
Claire Morris says
Made this cake for my twin grandchildren and their parents who are poorly. Cooked in Heritage range (bit like an Aga). Took much longer to cook but rose beautifully. Love this recipe.
bakingqueen74 says
Brilliant, so good to hear this also cooks well in your range cooker, Claire
Janice says
My kids make fun of me saying I can burn jelly. I admit this is true. Even a cake baked from a box turns out hard. I thought I would give this a try and its gorgeous. (Even though I say it myself). It’s so soft and flavoursome. Thank you so much for this. I will be definitely making it again
bakingqueen74 says
that’s wonderful Janice!
Rachel Adrienne says
Ive made this 3 times now and can honestly say it’s a must bake!!
Cannot recommend this recipe enough. It’s so easy to make and so delicious.
bakingqueen74 says
so glad to hear this Rachel! it is one of my favourites too.
Andy says
I love making banana loaf with left over bananas so definately need to make this. Can the recipe be adapted to a tray bake and if so would you double the recipe?
bakingqueen74 says
Hi Andy, it would greatly depend on the size of your tray bake tin, as this recipe makes enough mixture to fill a deep round baking tin. I haven’t tested it in any other tins but you could try it and see.
Kaiya says
Could I bake this in a bundt pan and what would be the temp/ time adjustments? Looks amazing and we looove Nutella!
bakingqueen74 says
Yes the cake could be baked in a bundt pan, you may need to adapt the recipe to the size of the tin. Timings would also depend on the size of the tin and whether you have increased the volumes. I would keep the same temperature.
L A says
I normally bake a banana loaf cake. This banana and nutella cake might now be our family fave. It was delicious. Next time I might put half the batter in tin and half nutella then the rest of batter and nutella on top just so the nutella is spread more through cake.
bakingqueen74 says
excellent! sounds a delicious twist.
Mojoblogs says
I love making banana bread but haven’t tried it with Nutella. Will definitely try this recipe bet this will taste really really good. Thank you for this.
Char Char says
Ive made this countless times. It’s a hit with kids and goes lovely with a tea or coffee an a chat! however I do like to add some vanilla essence to mine along with a bit off cinnamon and nutmeg. Tastes fab, it’s my go to cake recipe as we always have ripe bananas in our house.
bakingqueen74 says
So glad to hear this, thanks for leaving a review!