Christmas Morning Banana Crumb Cake!

By lindsay-2

Christmas morning traditional coffee cake

Ingredients

• Banana Topping
• 1/2 Cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 2 t. cornstarch
• 1/2 c water
• 2 T. butter
• 2 bananas sliced
• Crumb Mixture
• 1 c all purpose flour
• 2/3 c firmly packed brown sugar
• 3/4 t. cinnamon (saigon cinnamon is awesome!)
• 1/2 c chilled butter
• Cake
• 3/4 c butter softened
• 1 1/4 c sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 t.pure vanilla
• 2 c all purpose flour
• 1 t. baking powder (buy new each year)
• 1/2 t. baking soda (buy new each year)
• 3/4 c buttermilk

Preparation

Step 1

For banana topping, combine brown sugar and cornstarch in a heavy small saucepan. Stirring constantly over medium-high heat, gradually add water. Bring mixture to a boil;cook about 1 minute or until mixture begins to thicken. Add butter; stir until butter melts. Remove from heat. Stir in bananas and set aside.

For crumb mixture, combine flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. With a pastry blender or 2 forks cut in butter until mixture resembles very coarse crumbs; set aside.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. For cake, cream butter and sugar in a large bowl until fluffy. Add eggs; beat until smooth. Stir in vanilla. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Alternately add dry ingredients and buttermilk to creamed mixture; beat until well blended. Spread batter in a greased 10 inch spring form pan. Spoon banana topping over batter ...***Sprinkle crumb mixture over topping( I have found that if I wait until there are 20 minutes to go and then remove from oven to sprinkle crumb mixture evenly on top it works better because it slowly blends with cake mixture instead of sinking to bottom if done at the beginning... this could be because we live at sea level? who knows... good luck and experiment with that!) Bake 50-60 minutes until top is golden and toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.. Cool cake in pan 30 minutes..Serve warm... ( If made for Christmas morning I do all of this Christmas Eve day and then just warm while opening stockings) Merry Christmas!!