BANANA BREAD COFFEE CAKE

By RoketJSquerl

Ingredients

• Cinnamon Walnut Streusel
• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon
• 4 tablespoons cold butter, cubed
• Banana Cake
• 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup mashed bananas (about 2 large ripe bananas)
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/4 cups sour cream
• 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
• Cream Cheese Filling
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/4 cup reserved cake batter (see instructions)
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• Vanilla Glaze
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons milk

Details

Servings 12
Preparation time 30mins
Cooking time 90mins
Adapted from sanpasqualskitchen.com

Preparation

Step 1

Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°.
Grease and flour a 16 cup/10-inch non stick tube pan.
For Cinnamon Walnut Streusel:
Put walnuts in a plastic bag and crush with a mallet. In a bowl add flour, brown sugar and cinnamon and mix well. Add cold butter over top and using a pastry blender or your fingers incorporate the butter into the mixture. Add in the walnuts and stir well.
For the Cake:
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside.
In a large bowl or stand mixer beat butter and sugar until fluffy on medium high speed, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until the yellow disappears after each egg. Mix in vanilla and bananas until just until combined.
Gradually add flour mixture to banana/butter mixture in thirds, alternating with sour cream. Beat until just combined. Measure out ¼ cup batter and set aside for cream cheese filling. Stir walnuts into remaining batter until just until combined.
Measure out 1 cup batter (to top cream cheese layer) and spoon the rest of the batter into the prepared pan.
To your now empty mixing bowl, add ¼ cup reserved batter, cream cheese, 1 teaspoon vanilla and ¼ cup sugar. Beat on medium high speed until smooth and creamy, about 1 minute. Spoon Cream Cheese Filling over the batter and gently smooth without touching the sides of the pan. Spread the reserved 1 cup of batter evenly over filling (it will be very thin).
Tap the pan on counter a few times to get rid of any air bubbles then sprinkle evenly with Cinnamon Walnut Streusel.
Bake for 55-60 minutes at 350° or until toothpick inserted comes out clean (without inserting in cream cheese). Let baked cake cool on a wire rack for 1 hour. Gently invert cake onto a baking sheet, remove pan, and invert back onto cooling rack streusel side up. Let cool to room temperature.
When ready to serve, whisk Vanilla Glaze ingredients together in a medium bowl and drizzle over cake.

Instructions