Banana Coffee Cake
If you can’t decide between Banana Bread and Coffee Cake, get the best of both worlds with this Banana Coffee Cake. Super moist banana cake, with cinnamon walnut streusel both in the middle and on top make this cake the envy of all other coffee cakes!
Servings: 10 slices
Equipment
- 9” Springform Pan
- Potato Masher
Ingredients
Cake
- 4 oz unsalted butter melted, 113 g
- 1 ¼ cup mashed ripe bananas 3 small bananas, 318 g
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ¾ cup light brown sugar 150 g lightly packed
- 1 ¾ cup all-purpose flour 230 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
Streusel
- ½ cup all-purpose flour 64 g
- ¼ cup light brown sugar packed, 50 g
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- A pinch of kosher salt
- 2 ounce unsalted butter cold and cubed, 56 g
- ½ cup chopped walnuts 50 g, toasted & cooled
Instructions
- First, make the streusel. Stir together flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt in a medium mixing bowl.
- Toss in the cold cubed butter.
- Press the butter into the flour mixture with the tips of your fingers until all the pieces are pea or lima bean size, working quickly so as not to melt the butter. Alternately, you can use a pastry blender to cut the butter into the flour mixture. The mixture should be the texture of wet sand.
- Toss in the chopped walnuts and refrigerate until ready to use.
- Second, make the cake batter. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Grease a 9” springform cake pan, line the bottom with a piece of parchment paper, and grease the top of the parchment paper as well. Set aside.
- Mash the bananas with a potato masher in a large mixing bowl. You’ll want to measure out 1 ¼ cup of mashed bananas here if you don’t weigh them.
- Add melted butter, eggs, vanilla extract and brown sugar. Mix with a whisk until well combined.
- Sift flour, baking soda, and baking powder into a small mixing bowl. Stir in the kosher salt.
- Add the flour mixture to the liquid mixture and fold until just combined. The batter will be a bit chunky due to the mashed bananas, avoid overmixing since it will make the cake dry.
- Finally, assemble and bake. Transfer half of the cake batter to the prepared cake pan and even it out with a spatula, sprinkle half of the streusel on top. Dollop the remaining cake batter over the streusel and even out the top, sprinkle the remaining streusel over it.
- Bake in the middle of the oven for 40 - 45 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean with just a few crumbs attached.
- Allow the cake to cool to the touch in the pan on a wire rack before unmolding it.
Notes
- A stand mixer or electric hand mixer can be used but it is absolutely not necessary. I find it easier with just a hand whisk.
- You can use a regular cake pan. I recommend adding two strips of long parchment paper underneath the round piece, letting the excess hang over the side so you can use them as handles to lift the cake out later.
- I baked mine for exactly 43 minutes but just make sure you check it a little earlier to ensure you don’t overbake, and allow it to bake a few minutes longer if it is underbaked.
- Take 3-5 minutes to toast your walnuts in a skillet over medium heat. This brings out their wonderful flavor.
Nutrition
Serving: 117g | Calories: 391kcal
