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a white plate with a piece of cake mix banana bread on it that's smothered in melted butter.

Cake Mix Easy Banana Bread with Brown Sugar Crust

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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!
Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword banana bread, banana loaf, cake mix, cooking, delicious, easy, honey butter, recipe, simple
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Servings 8 people

Equipment

Ingredients

FOR THE BANANA BREAD

FOR THE BROWN SUGAR CRUST (optional)

  • 4 tablespoon Cold Salted Butter
  • ¼ teaspoon Cinnamon
  • 4 tablespoon Light Brown Sugar

FOR THE SMOKED SALT HONEY BUTTER (optional)

  • 3 tablespoon Salted 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.