Make Ahead Banana Breakfast Cake

By: Rachel TiemeyerPosted: 9/16/20Updated: 9/21/23

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A deliciously moist banana cake that makes a healthy snack or breakfast. You will be surprised how fast your family will empty the dish on this one!

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About This Recipe

I’ve been making this breakfast cake for YEARS. It’s one of my go-to make-ahead breakfast recipe ideas that my whole family will devour.

Think moist, sweet banana bread but in a cake form. I love to warm it up a bit and serve with a little bit of butter.

The best part: It is filled with banana and sneaky sweet potato! YES, you can get your crew to eat sweet potato for breakfast!

Ingredients Needed

As I mentioned before, this breakfast cake is made with ingredients you likely already have in your pantry. Here is what you’ll need:

Bananas – The riper the better. Pro-tip: You can freeze ripe bananas for recipes like this! Here’s how to freeze bananas.
Cooked sweet potato – You can also substitute canned pumpkin or cooked butternut squash for sweet potato.
White Whole Wheat Flour – Please note that this is not just whole wheat flour. It needs to be WHITE WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR variety. If you don’t have that, you can use half whole wheat flour and half all-purpose flour as a substitute. (Read more on this below.)
Coconut oil – Make sure it’s melted or substitute avocado oil.
Plain Greek yogurt – You can use full-fat sour cream instead if you want.
Mini Chocolate Chips – I’ve used dark chocolate chips before and loved it!
Standard baking ingredients: Eggs, vanilla, sugar (I used coconut sugar), baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

Slice of banana breakfast cake on a plate

One thing worth noting on this recipe is that you will need a blender. This makes the batter SUPER smooth and hides all the sneaky produce.

How Do I Freeze Banana Breakfast Cake?

We are huge fans of make-ahead freezer meals. Not only have we written two freezer meal cookbooks, but we have a huge collection of freezer meals that are delicious, healthy, and easy! Banana Breakfast Cake is a recipe that freezes beautifully.

If you are already busting out all of the ingredients and utensils to make this breakfast cake, you might as well make two batches and freeze one for later. Here’s how:

To Freeze For Later: Bake breakfast cake just until done. Cool completely. Either cover the baking dish tightly in a few layers of foil or plastic wrap or carefully lift the cake out of the baking dish and wrap in several layers of foil or plastic wrap, pressing as much air out as you can.

To Prepare From Frozen: Thaw on the counter. Warm a slice in the microwave for 15-20 seconds and top with a pat of butter, if desired.

Serving Ideas

Our smoothies would be a perfect pairing with breakfast cake. Choose from one of the following flavors!

Chocolate Covered Cherry Smoothie
Blueberry Muffin Smoothie
Orangesicle Smoothie
Strawberry Piña Colada Smoothie
Green Machine Smoothie
Very Berry Smoothie
4-Ingredient Tropical Green Smoothie

Another idea would be Oven Baked Bacon. It comes out perfectly every time using our baking method.

Why Is White Whole Wheat Flour So Important?

If you spend much time browsing through our baked goods, you’ll find that we almost always use white whole wheat flour (instead of just “whole wheat flour”). We’ve found that white whole wheat flour yields much fluffier/lighter-tasting results. It works in most recipes as a replacement for whole wheat flour. Here is a bit more about the difference between the two.

Here are some of our favorite recipes that use white whole wheat flour:

If you liked this recipe, you might like these 10 other recipes that use up ripe bananas. You’ll never throw away brown bananas again!

Rachel Tiemeyer

As co-founder of Thriving Home, Rachel dreams about creating recipes (literally) and uses her husband, her 3 kids, and even the neighbors as guinea pigs several nights a week. She believes that good food has the power to bring families and friends closer together and continues to wake up excited about her job each day, even after 10+ years!