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!!
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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°C (fan oven) / 350° 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 to 2 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!
If you try it let me know by tagging me on social media or leaving me a comment. Check out my cake archives too for loads more baking recipes.
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Recipe
Banana and Nutella Cake
Ingredients
- 115 g (½ cup) unsalted butter
- 170 g (¾ cup + 1 tbsp) caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- 2 medium eggs
- 3 ripe bananas mashed
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 300 g (1 ¾ cups + 2 tbsp) plain flour (all-purpose 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 (superfine 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 (all-purpose 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.
Vicky says
Fab cake, easy to make and everyone loves it
Lori says
180 degrees to bake? It seems very low in an oven. Please advise to the correct degrees to bake this cake! Thank you!
bakingqueen74 says
That’s right, the temperature is given in Celsius as I am in the UK.
jodie says
Approx how many grams of bananas will this mix need? I’m going to use chopped bananas that I have in the freezer. De-frost then mashed but dont know how much to use. Thanks
bakingqueen74 says
You need 3 bananas worth. Difficult to say with frozen banana as I think the weight and texture would be different. I’d work out by eye how much looks like the equivalent to three bananas from what you have.
Emily says
I’ve made this 3 times during quarantine and absolutely love it!!! Thank you!
bakingqueen74 says
Marvellous Emily!
Danielle leigh says
I made it once and was so tasty but didnt look great because I swapped tins after marbling the nutella to a loaf tin haha.
I’ve just had my second attempt with a top witb nutella and bottom half without nutella so i can spread nutella through the middle like a sandwich!! Thankyou for this lovely recipe x
bakingqueen74 says
Sounds delicious!!
Laura says
I made it! It was perfect!!!!!!!!
bakingqueen74 says
Excellent, thanks for stopping by to let me know!
Ruchi Singla says
Hi , if using plain flour r we suppose to increase the baking powder to 3 tsp
bakingqueen74 says
Hi. If using plain use the 2 spoons stated. The one tsp is for if you are using self-raising.
Akruti says
I will be baking it in an OTG. What temperature and for how long should I bake it for?
bakingqueen74 says
Sorry no idea what that is. I would check a converter for that type of appliance.
Indra (Mexico) says
I made this recipe to spend time during quarantine and it was the best time ever!
I made 2 recipes to share with neighbors .
My family loved, thanks for sharing!
bakingqueen74 says
Brilliant, so glad to hear this!
Dee-anna says
I love this recipe, I’ve used it loads for adults and kids, was just wondering, Do you think it could be frozen?
bakingqueen74 says
Great! Yes it freezes well, wrap it tightly in foil or clingfilm and freeze for up to 3 months.
Zulia says
Actualy i Use this recipe for 3or4time already, ist simple, fast and delicius, thank you for sharing..
Dolores says
Delicious but not sure if i’ve baked it long enough it was slightly under done but still tasty and yum my five years old was over the moon.
Ps: baked in a square Pyrex dish and used self raising flour.
Jojo says
Just made this, barely out of the oven….already been tasted, delicious! Thank you for sharing.
Nurul Ezzah says
I just baked this cake today! Thank you so much for sharing the receipe. It tasted great, very simple and easy to make too.
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks so much for letting me know you enjoyed it!
Leanne says
Love this recipie as its simple, fast and delicious. I also put blobs of chocolate into the tin before the mixture
bakingqueen74 says
Glad to hear it Leanne! That sounds like a great way to make it even more chocolatey too.
Kennedy says
I am going to try this one tonight
Jan Clausen says
I just made this cake (translating grams to oz.) and this turned out perfect. Beautiful in two small bundt cakes. Delicious. Easy to make, what more can you ask for in a recipe? This will be a favorite, and I will toss my head and say, when complimented, “oh, it’s a recipe from an English friend”. Thank you.
Nancy says
Please give the conversion from metric to U.S. measurements. I’d love to make this!
Anne says
AWESOME! Two of my favorite ingredients all in one. So happy to have found your blog Lucy, I was really looking for a recipe that would help me get more from my Nutella because every time I buy one the next thing I know all my family members have already devoured it leaving me only the bottle. Can’t wait to see your other recipes. More power and God Bless.
Pam says
Do you mean 350 Fahrenheit or 180 Celsius
bakingqueen74 says
Hi Pam it’s 180 degrees C