Soft & Fluffy Strawberry Banana Cake — This cake is so soft, moist, fluffy! It’s packed with creamy bananas and sweet strawberries. It’s such a rich, flavorful cake!
Easy Strawberry and Banana Cake
I love the combination of strawberries and bananas, but had never put the two together into a cake. Now I can check strawberry banana cake off my culinary to-do list.
The cake is so soft, moist, and packed with creamy bananas and sweet strawberries.
And it just happens to be vegan, but you’ll never miss the eggs or butter. It’s such a rich, flavorful cake and no one will ever suspect it’s vegan.
My family devoured it first. Then I told them it was on the healthier side of the cake spectrum and vegan.
It’s an easy, no mixer cake that takes just minutes to get in the oven and it’s perfect for your extra ripe bananas and takes advantage of all those strawberries that are coming into season now.
It’s a perfect cake for showers, brunches, or as a just-because cake when your eyeballs are bigger than your stomach and you have too many ripe bananas or ripe seasonal fruit around!
Although I have 40+ banana bread and banana recipes, there’s always room for one more. The cake reminds me of banana bread that’s baked as a cake with an abundance of juicy strawberries and we loved it.
What’s in the Strawberry Banana Cake?
To make this easy strawberry and banana recipe, you’ll need:
- Granulated sugar
- Coconut oil
- Silk Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
- Vanilla extract
- Bananas
- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Strawberries
- Confectioners’ sugar
- Margarine (or butter)
How to Make Strawberry Banana Cake
To make the cake, simply whisk together sugar, coconut oil, vanilla, and Silk Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk. I love this stuff. It only has 30 calories per 8 ounces, tastes great, and if I need a vegan milk, this is my absolute go-to.
All Silk products are dairy-free and gluten-free and I like that Silk is committed to and believes in the benefits of a plant-based diet.
Then, add the bananas, flour, baking powder, and the strawberries. Turn the batter into a 9-inch square pan and bake until the center is set. Let the cake cool before glazing it.
The glaze is a simple confectioners’ sugar and Silk Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk glaze and it’s optional because the cake is already sweet and moist enough without it, but everything is just that much better with a little glaze on it.
Can I Use Frozen Strawberries?
Yes! Fresh or frozen berries work well in this recipe (I used frozen and added them to the batter straight from the freezer). Whether you use fresh or frozen, they add great flavor and even more moisture to the cake.
Can I Substitute the Coconut Oil?
I used coconut oil and prefer baking with it than butter for most quick breads, cakes, and muffins. Oil keeps things softer, springier, and moister long-term.
The cake doesn’t taste overly coconutty. Rather, it’s subtly perfumed with coconut undertones, which is heavenly with the bananas and berries, but substitute with another oil if you prefer.
Tips for Making a Strawberry and Banana Cake
Feel free to swap out the strawberries for peaches, plums, nectarines, blueberries, or raspberries. This is a fairly forgiving batter.
I made this cake in a 9-inch baking pan, but you can also double the ingredients and bake it in a 9×13-inch pan.
Do NOT bake the cake in a 9-inch round cake tin. It holds less volume than a 9-inch square pan. If you only have a round pan on hand, discard the extra batter or try baking it in a muffin tin.
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Soft and Fluffy Strawberry Banana Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup liquid-state coconut oil
- ¼ cup Silk Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups ripe mashed bananas, about 3 medium bananas
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- pinch salt, optional and to taste
- 1 heaping cup diced strawberries, fresh or frozen (if using frozen, thaw and drain them)
Glaze
- about 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 2 tablespoons Silk Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
- 1 tablespoon softened margarine, butter may be substituted but it’s not vegan
Instructions
Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350F. Line a 9-inch square pan with aluminum foil and spray with cooking spray, or grease and flour the pan; set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together granulated sugar, coconut oil, milk, and vanilla. If your milk is very cold, it could cause the coconut oil to solidify into small white blobs; it’s okay if that happens.
- Add the bananas and stir to combine.
- Add the flour, baking powder, optional salt, and stir to combine. Batter will be lumpy; don’t overmix or cake will be tough.
- Add 1 cup of strawberries and gently fold to combine; reserve a few pieces for top of cake.
- Turn batter out into prepared pan, smoothing the top lightly with a spatula.
- Sprinkle the top evenly with reserved strawberry pieces.
- Bake for about 40 minutes, or until center is set and slightly spring to the touch, and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter. Watch your cake, not the clock, and always bake until done noting that climate, oven, moisture in bananas and strawberries, and exact ingredients used effect baking time.
- Place pan on a wire rack and allow cake to cool for at least 30 minutes before optionally glazing. While cake cooks, makes the glaze.
Glaze:
- To a small bowl, add 1 cup confectioners’ sugar, milk, margarine, and whisk until smooth. Depending on desired consistency, you may need to play with sugar and milk ratios slightly.
- Evenly drizzle the glaze over the cake before slicing and serving.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Yum! Just made this with fresh plums and topped it with strawberries and it was delicious…you’re recipes are the only ones that never fail me Averie! Plus its vegan :)
Thanks for trying this, for saying that my recipes are the only ones that never fail you, and that you had all the ingredients on hand (and it’s vegan)! YAY! Thanks for the compliments and glad you like the cake!
Do you think gluten free would work? Looks yummy
I haven’t tried but if you do, LMK the results!
Going to have to sub regular milk for the almond milk- allergies :( but I love that I can totally eat this for breakfast and consider it semi-healthy, right? there IS fruit in it… and less than a cup of sugar! ;)
Yes totally sub out according to your needs and of course, cake for breakfast is a winner :) But yes, less than 1 c sugar for the whole cake isn’t bad!
I’ve never (intentionally) baked anything vegan before this, and let me tell you, this was AMAZING!! The flavors were so summery and delicious, and the cake is super moist. My husband loved it, too, and he had no clue it was vegan :)
Love comments like this – that you’ve never intentionally baked a vegan dessert, that your hubs had no clue, and that you loved it and thought it was amazing. Vegan baking, when done right, can be every bit as amazing as non-vegan! Hopefully you’re a believer now. Thanks for trying the recipe!
Yummy!
Super impressive that this is vegan! I’ve always loved strawberries and bananas together too. When I was in school, I had a strawberry, banana, and vanilla ice cream smoothie as a snack every day. Pure comfort!
I can’t believe this moist, scrumptious cake is entirely vegan! It looks SO juicy and full of all those plump strawberries and delicious banana. Can’t wait to make! Pinned :D
Thanks for pinning and it’s amazing what you can do with vegan baking if you put your mind to it :)
Oooohhh that GLAZE!!! I love it. I also love Silk! And I have seriously never made a cake or bread or anything with bananas AND strawberries. I’m missing out! I think I need to make this ASAP!
This looks delish! Pinned!
Strawberry Banana Cake – check! I just love how this happens to be vegan – you just naturally make desserts even more awesome by increasing the health factor Averie :) Totally gorgeous and that glaze on top – fantastic! You can just tell how perfectly moist the cake is and with all those strawberries and bananas, I’m thinking this might work for breakfast :) Pinned!
Would totally work for breakfast. You know, cake for breakfast is always a good thing :) And yes it is healthier than other cakes so of course you can have extra. Thanks for pinning!
Everything about this is perfect!
wow amazing, i definitely try this at home :)
Oh boy, I could gobble a piece of that up right now! It looks so light and fluffy. And your photography is so beautiful.
I don’t think that banana cake can get any more beautiful than this, this is definitely the queen B-anana!! I am really craving something banana infused but my mum chucked out all of the ripened bananas that I had been saving!! So I’m going to have to wait for this green bunch to do something with themselves first! Often when I make banana bread (without strawberries) I use oil too rather than butter – but I add in some yogurt too! The final product is outstandingly fluffy + moist!! So much so that you actually have to cut down on the oil! I also saw a recipe for sour cream pancakes, so I’m guessing that sour cream too has the same effect! I might try adding them in if the bananas ripen and i’m feeling naughtier than usual!!
Amazing pictures, Averie.
Tash xo
Thanks for all your great comments tonight and yes, sour cream is great in cakes. In many cakes I make, I use either sour cream/greek yogurt and/or buttermilk. Any cultured dairy just gives an extra special bit of moisture, spring, and bounce. These muffins are make with lots of sour cream and so good! https://www.averiecooks.com/extra-soft-and-moist-blueberry-muffins/
I love that this could totally pass as a breakfast item! ;) It looks scrumptious! Pinning!
And thanks for pinning so much of my stuff! Always noticed and always appreciated :)
I would love to make this bread and take it along side a picnic with my girls! Love it Averie! And always love the photography!
Thanks for the compliments, Ari!