Dorothy KernBanana Bread Coffee Cake – this EASY coffee cake recipe is full of banana bread flavor with a nutty streusel on top! It’s everyone’s favorite breakfast or brunch recipe!
When you’re a blogger, you make lots of internet friends. The friends and community really are one of the best parts of blogging. After awhile, you no longer refer to them as internet or blogging friends…they’re just friends. Plain and simple.
It feels really weird talking to your real-life friends about your blogging friends. Like, “Yeah, my friend Ashton, you know, the one I met online. We chat all the time. Yeah, I met her online. She’s an blogging friend turned BFF.”
And then you get all sorts of funny looks. I liken it to internet dating. You meet online, you chat, you email, and then you finally meet in person. You’re nervous because what if it’s different than online? And then you realize you’re being stupid feeling freaked out because you practically do know these people, just not in person.
Anyway, long story short – I get to meet another of my internet/blogging turned real-life friends, Lisa, tomorrow! She’ll be in town for a night and I’m going to drive down and meet her for dinner.
I am So. Flipping. Excited.
I just wish we could hang out longer, maybe see the sights and then have coffee and coffee cake together. Because this banana bread coffee cake is SO something we could bond over.
It should come as no surprise that I am addicted to coffee cake. I have made so many versions: carrot cake, peanut butter, cinnamon roll pie, pumpkin, and zucchini. Why not add banana bread to that list?
For this recipe, I combined my mom’s banana bread and her coffee cake recipe to make an amazing banana bread coffee cake. It even has a pecan streusel topping. We all know, the streusel makes the coffee cake! And this one totally does!
And I also browned the butter. Have you ever had brown butter? It’s, like, the best thing everrrrr. I know it takes an extra step, but you should totally go for it. If it’s not your think, use regular melted butter.
The brown butter, the bananas, the streusel – this is one of my favorite coffee cakes yet!
It would go perfectly with a cup of coffee…and a BFF.
Banana Bread Coffee Cake
Ingredients
- For the Cake
- ¾ cup sugar
- 6 tablespoons butter browned and divided
- 2 tired bananas mashed
- 1 egg
- ½ cup milk
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- For the Streusel
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons reserved browned butter
- 1 cup pecans or walnuts optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Spray a 9” square pan or a 10” pie plate with cooking spray.
- Add 6 tablespoons of butter to a small frying pan. Cook over low heat, stirring until it browns. It will foam up, then turn brown. Keep stirring the entire time. Once it turns brown the foam will diminish and the butter will become golden. Remove from heat. You are using this butter for both the cake and streusel!
- Whisk flower, baking powder, and salt together in a medium bowl.
- Mix sugar, 4 tablespoons of the browned butter, and egg in a large bowl. Stir in milk and mashed bananas. Stir dry ingredients into wet and stir until just combined.
- Make the crumb topping: stir together brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, remaining browned butter, and nuts.
- Place the cake batter in the pan and spread to fit. Top with the streusel. Bake for 25-29 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. (Mine too 26 minutes in a 10” pie plate.)
Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate
Click here for easy ways to use overripe BANANAS
Sweets from friends:
Meyer Lemon Coffee Cake by Baking Bites
Cream Cheese Coffee Cake by Shugary Sweets
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls by Something Swanky
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Published on: October 3, 2013
where’s the COFFEE!!!!
You eat it with coffee…
I want to try this. I have all the ingredients, but all I have is an 8” square dish or a 9 x 13. Would either one of those work to bake this cake in?
I think I made one of the two I made in a 9X13. The cake just might be a bit thinner and you’d watch for it to be done sooner. Just the opposite for a smaller dimension baking dish. It would be higher and might take a bit more time to bake well all through.
I was looking for something different from my usually bandanna bread to use some overripe bananas and came across this. So good! Moist and delicious. Do NOT skip browning the butter. It’s easy to do and adds so much flavor!
I made this as a double recipe, half for at home and half to take to church. I froze the one for church until the day I needed it. I have never had compliments as I did on this banana bread coffee cake after the church lunch. The ladies loved it. I’ve had requests for it for the church picnic next week! I thought it was scrumptious, too!
Oh my…wish y’all had smellanet! You know, internet with smell?!? This coffee cake could raise the dead! It is first of the morning perfect cuppa coffee perfect! A must try!
I made this and doubled it since I had 5 small bananas. I always worry when I do that, but both coffee cakes came out perfectly delicious! Excellent recipe and I’d never heard of browning the butter, but yum!!