3-Ingredient Banana Bread Is The Shortcut Recipe You Need To Try

It happens to all of us. Even though you have diligently saved your bananas from the fruit bowl and stored them in the best way possible, they have become ripe beyond the point of no return. Thankfully, this is far from bad news. Instead of tossing your bananas into the trash bin or the compost pile, consider trying this simple three-ingredient banana bread recipe that has taken the internet by storm. All you need are eggs, a box of yellow cake mix, and, of course, bananas.

The cake mix brings its fluffiness and subtle vanilla flavor to merge with the sweetness of the bananas and the richness and binding qualities of eggs. Together, these create a loaf of banana bread that is perfect for a relaxed baking experience. The general process is to blend together two eggs and two bananas first, then mix in the cake mix. Yet there is plenty of room for creativity with this recipe, though some of these common mistakes when it comes to making banana bread are still worth keeping in mind.

The simplicity of this shortcut recipe makes it perfect for taking a creative approach. Food content creator @cooking_comedy_chaos takes this creativity to the next level in one of her TikToks. On a mission to follow this banana bread recipe without using any dishes, she mixes and blends all three ingredients in a Ziploc bag and pipes the batter into a disposable aluminum baking pan. After it's baked and cooled, the fluffy, yellow loaf is broken apart and tasted. The verdict? Delicious.

The creativity does not have to stop in the execution of this recipe. Really, there is nothing stopping you from sprinkling in some nuts, citrus extract or zest, cinnamon, or some of your other favorite banana bread ingredients for an additional pop of flavor. It has already been established that bananas are one of the most underrated ingredients you should be adding to boxed cake mix, but the combination of yellow boxed cake mix and bananas in particular is truly iconic.