Cake Mix Easy Banana Bread with Brown Sugar Crust
This delicious and easy banana bread recipe with honey butter uses store bought cake-mix and has monkey bread style crust made with brown sugar & cinnamon!
Ingredients
FOR THE BANANA BREAD
- 3-4 large over ripe bananas
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 4 tablespoon cold butter
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 4 tablespoon light brown sugar
FOR THE SMOKED SALT HONEY BUTTER
- 3 tablespoon butter
- 2 tablespoon tupelo honey
- 2 pinches smoked sea salt
Instructions
FOR THE BANANA BREAD
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Combine over ripe bananas, eggs and vanilla extract in a large bowl and mash until slightly chunky yet mostly smooth. Whisk in the cake mix for about 2 minutes. The batter should be pretty smooth but with a little bit of chunkiness because of the bananas.
- Chop butter into tiny cubes and grease 2 loaf pans. Sprinkle each pan evenly with butter cubes, cinnamon and brown sugar. Pour in the banana bread mixture half way and bake for 40-45 minutes or until the bread is cooked through. Test by using a toothpick.
- Remove banana bread from the loaf pans immediately and let it cool for 10-15 minutes before smothering it with honey butter.
FOR THE SMOKED SALT HONEY BUTTER
- Mix together butter, tupelo honey and smoked sea salt the serve.
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