Banana Bread Coffee Cake
Banana bread and coffee cake come together in this delicious recipe, featuring a cinnamon infused crumb topping and a powdered sugar glaze.
Servings: 12 servings
Ingredients
For the cake:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 ripe bananas mashed
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup buttermilk
For the crumb filling and topping:
- 3/4 cup cold butter cubed
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
For the glaze:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1-2 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9x13 baking dish.
- In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
- In a large bowl combine mashed bananas and butter. Stir in granulated sugar, eggs and vanilla.
- Alternately stir flour mixture and buttermilk into banana mixture, starting and ending with flour.
- To make crumbs: combine all the ingredients and cut with a fork or pastry cutter until mixture resembles coarse sand.
- Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan. Top with 1/3 of the crumb mixture. Cover with the remaining batter and top with remaining crumb mixture.
- Bake for 50-55 minutes until the center is set and a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes.
- Combine ingredients for glaze and drizzle over top of cake.