This banana coffee cake is my Mom’s recipe and it is the absolute best. I make it for all occasions — random weekend breakfasts, brunches with guests, etc. I taught my daughter to make it and now she is the banana coffee cake chef. 🙂
If you don’t like the pecans, try walnuts instead. Or, omit entirely if you don’t want nuts.
Banana Coffee Cake
Print RecipeServings: 8
Ingredients
Cake
- 1/2 cup butter/margarine
- 1 package cream cheese (8 oz.) softened
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup mashed banana about 3 bananas
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
Topping
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans
- 4 Tbsp. sugar
- 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
Glaze
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar sifted
- 1 Tbsp. warm water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a 10″ Bundt pan. (Or spray with Pam Baker’s.)
- Cream butter and cream cheese. Gradually add the sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Stir in banana and vanilla.
- Combine flour, baking powder & soda. Gradually add to banana mixture, stirring well. The batter at this point will be very thick and almost resemble dough instead of cake batter.
- For the topping, combine pecans, sugar and cinnamon. Stir half of the mixture into the batter. Pour half of the batter into pan. Sprinkle with remaining nut mixture. Pour remaining batter into pan.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes and then turn onto a plate. Spoon glaze on top.
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looks delicious! 🙂 I would totally make it if I wasn’t on this fertility diet..
by the way pop by my blog I gave you an award.(mother’s day post)
Coincidentally I had some bananas ripe and ready to go for banana bread last night, so when I saw this recipe I decided to give it a try. I sent it to work with my husband today and they loved it! I was out of powdered sugar so I ended up using light brown sugar for the glaze with a little warm water and vanilla and it was so good. I also may or may not have added chocolate chips…I couldn’t help myself. 🙂
Thanks for passing it along.
So glad you liked it! Mmm…chocolate chips.