Skip to main content

Banana-Oat Snack Cake

4.0

(2)

Banana nut brownies in a grid
Alex Lau

Loaded with oats and bananas, this is a great treat to have on hand after soccer or baseball practice.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    12 Servings

Ingredients

6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into ½” pieces, melted, plus more for baking dish
1½ cups old-fashioned oats
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1¼ cups (packed) light brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 bananas, chopped

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Preheat oven to 350°. Lightly coat an 8x8” baking dish with butter and line with parchment paper. Whisk oats, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl; set aside. Whisk brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla in another large bowl until mixture is smooth.

    Step 2

    Slowly stream butter into brown sugar mixture, whisking constantly until well blended. Add bananas to dry ingredients; toss to coat. Stir into brown sugar mixture (batter will be thick). Spread batter in prepared dish. Bake until cake is golden brown and the edges start to pull away from sides of dish, 35–40 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely in dish. Cut into 12 servings.

Read More
With ultra-tender cake and a few-ingredient frosting, this is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for all ages.
As energizing as an energy bar, with a much simpler ingredient list.
Using two entire lemons—pith, skin, and all—cranks up the citrus flavor in this classic dessert.
Crunchy, seedy flax crackers get topped with dark chocolate and a showering of sea salt for the ultimate sweet and salty snack.
Nutty and deeply chocolatey, these brownies just so happen to be gluten-free.
You don’t need melted chocolate to make a good brownie
An Australian icon—with coconut, chocolate, and raspberry—streamlined in a standard muffin pan.
This no-oven-needed crisp can be made with almost any fresh berry (we’d avoid raspberries) and comes together within 45 minutes.