This Quick Banana Bread Mug Cake is perfect for a dessert and you can even have it for breakfast. This vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free dessert is packed with health.
What happens when you are having desserts every day? You want to find out ways to add healthy stuff in your dessert to have some mercy on yourself! I am in a mug cake mode lately because they are so quick and easy. I thought let’s make something healthy, quick which tastes awesome. So why not make a banana bread mug cake – which is gluten-free, sugar-free, dairy free and completely vegan. That’s good news for the ears right?
I love using fruits in desserts, and banana cakes and banana bread are one of my favorites because they are super simple and super yum. In this Banana Bread Mug Cake, however, I am replacing everything with healthy stuff. There is oats instead of flour, there’s maple syrup instead of sugar, there’s vegetable oil instead of butter, how’s that?
Microwave cooking is easy and fast, and I find it very weird when I hear people use microwave mostly for heating! My MIL is one of the biggest example of it! You can make loads of things in a microwave. Maybe I will have more microwave recipes in future in my blog.
How to make Quick Banana Bread Mug Cake?
Take half a ripe banana and mash it with a fork. Those bananas which look ugly with black patches are the best ones for baking. They are softer and sweeter than a fresh banana. Whenever I have bananas turning ugly I use them up in baking, no throwing away anything in my house. Mashed bananas are good replacements of egg in baking, that’s why this mug cake is eggless too.
I am using oats flour in this Banana Bread Mug Cake recipe. Take some instant rolled oats in a grinder and pulse for 2-3 seconds till you have a coarse powder. That’s enough for this recipe. I am not a big fan of oats especially oats porridge, so I try having it in different varieties. Oats, when roasted or, baked gives a wonderful aroma and it’s much better to have it that way than in porridge!
In a mixing bowl add mashed banana, maple syrup (you can use any pancake syrup or even caramel syrup), vegetable oil (or any flavorless oil), baking powder, oats flour, nutmeg powder and mix them well with a fork till there are no lumps. Add some chocolate chips for some added love to the Banana Bread Mug Cake.
Take a microwave safe cup pf mug and grease it with cooking spray or a little oil. Pour the batter in and tap over the counter so that it sits at one level. Sprinkle some chocolate chips over it.
How long to bake the Banana Bread Mug Cake in Microwave?
Microwave works much much faster than an oven. All microwaves are different according to their healing capacity. I have one that goes up to 950W. So I bake my cakes for 1 minute and 20 seconds at the highest temperature in my microwave. If your microwave is 800W bake it for 2 minutes if its 1000W bake it for 90 seconds. So you have to adjust the timing depending on your microwave.
Garnish with some banana slices and sprinkle some nutmeg powder. Serve warm. I had it for an indulgent breakfast. It has enough energy to see through half the day!
- Ripe Banana – half, mashed
- Maple syrup – 1 tablespoon
- Vegetable Oil – 1 tablespoom
- Baking powder – 1/4th teaspoon
- Salt – a pinch
- Nutmeg powder – 1/8th teaspoon
- Oats flour – 3 tablespoon
- Vanilla essence – 1/2 teaspoon
- Chocolate chips – 1 tablespoon
- Mix mashed banana, vanilla essence, maple syrup, vegetable oil in a mixing bowl
- Add oats flour, baking powder, salt and chocolate chips to oit and mix well with a fork
- Grease a microwave safe cup
- Pour batter
- Sprinkle some chocolate chips on top
- Microwave for 1 minute 20 seconds at 950W
- Garnish with banana slices and nutmeg powder
- Serve warm
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I am one of those who keeps on hearing about the ill effects if microwave and dont even use it for heating – I use its grill and oven functions only.
To be very honest, this cake looks like a bit of mess and not at all appetising to me! Was this after you dug into it or just out of the oven?
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mug cakes generally look messy since they rise up and get down and that is the best part about it.
I love it when its healthy and yummy too. Dessert and healthy is a good combination and the best part is its quick and easy too.
I add a lot of oats to my baked stuff too Tina.But somehow dont like vegetable oil taste.The healthy part of vegetable oil is actually dicey.I love how yummy this is looking.Great post
Microwave recipe, how I loved it, simple and quick. Sure will look forward to more in this category.
I’m on a diet so this definitely looks healthy…haven’t eaten a dessert for such a long time! How many calories in a mug? The bananas must have upped the calorie content, no?
Looks stunning. But I’m someone who hates bananas. Maybe, for P though 🙂
This looks like the perfect use of ripened bananas and pats is another healthy ingredient
I made your chocolate mug cake last week and it was delicious. I will be trying this recipe today as I have one banana left, and it is soft.
Thank you again.
I love bananas in every form and this recipe is quick and easy
will surely try this soon
Interesting post, enjoyed a lot
Thanks for sharing
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Looks like an easy recipe to follow for people who love to cook. I avoid cooking as much as possible, ‘badger the hubby till he does it’ is my general motto. Doesn’t always work, but still…
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I am one of the those who use microwave only for heating. I don’t even know how much power it has. Keep Shariing you mug recipes… I will try them 😀
hehehe, Raj, you can do a lot of stuffs in microwave. Thanks for dropping by.
This is the 1st time I’ve read about a Banana Mug Cake and I love it! Your picks make me want to lick my screen! I am going to make it soon!
hahaha, M this is super easy and was pretty awesome, but as usual Bluey was not interested. I had it for breakfast.
Banana bread is my fav, so I almost got up to make myself a quick mid-morning snack, till I realised that I don’t have maple syrup/caramel syrup at home. Any other substitutes? Can I just leave it out?
you can leave it too if you have ripe sweet banana,
Tina, your desserts are just perfect for me. I have very less time for Cooking and with a toddler at home, i need to come up with some new and tasty ideas. Thanks.
This looks surprisingly easy and quick. I love microwave recipes. Any way we can use a different fruit though?
you can make mug cakes with many fruits, but not this recipe though, bananas are great with baking, they dont need anything else. Will share more fruit recipes.
I’m fine with banana as well. How I wish someone can make one for me while I’m writing for a to z 😂
Yup! Going through some of the others 😀
I love mug cakes for their instant gratification! This looks good, and healthy to boot! Bookmarking for future cake cravings. 🙂
It sounds very nice. I’m going to try it, though not in the microwave, since I dont’ ahve it.
I learned to bake babana bread whene I visit my American friend. Everybody at home loved it 🙂
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I have actually tried banana mug cake with some cocoa (as far as I remember) and then added some walnuts. But adding oats does sound healthy and better than eating it in the routine way which is yuck! We do share our dislike for oats I gathered 😀
This sounds like a lovely recipe and the pictures look great 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
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That’s such a yum cake. I would love to try this easy recipe.
wow! i am always on a hunt for healthy meals. especially because i have 15-month-old daughter. thank you for this quick recipes. although i don’t have few ingredient . can i skip any pancake syrup and nutmeg?
Love this recipe specially because it has no dairy and no sugar – can make it for my dad who is asked to avoid both of those! Thanks!
Never thought making cake in a microwave could be that easy!
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I am trying to make a smash cake for my son’s first birthday and like the looks of this recipe. Only thing is that even though it looks delicious it looks a bit ooeu gooey. Would I be able to pop this out of the mug easily?
You can move a knife along the edges of the mug to loosen it and then take it out easily. Grease the mug and dust some flour on it. You can then take out the cake very easily.