New Cream Cheese Stuffed Banana Coffee Cake
INGREDIENTS
Cinnamon Walnut Streusel
- 1/2 cup walnuts
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 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 at room temperature
- 1 cup mashed bananas (about 2 large ripe bananas)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups sour ream (not nonfat) at room temperature
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (optional)
- 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped (optional)
Cream Cheese Filling
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup Reserved Batter (see instructions)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Vanilla Glaze
- 1 cup Powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons milk
- Garnish (optional)
- Garnish (optional)
- mini chocolate chips
- The best Banana ANYTHING ever! Moist Banana Coffee Cake
riddled with chocolate chips and walnuts (optional) with an INCREDIBLY creamy
cheesecake-like cream cheese filling all topped with brown sugar walnut
streusel and vanilla drizzle.
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and spray all inside surfaces
of a 16 cup nonstick tube pan with nonstick cooking spray WITH FLOUR or grease
and flour the inside of your pan. Set aside.* - Cinnamon Walnut Streusel: Add walnuts to your food processor
and pulse 3 times. Add flour, brown sugar and cinnamon and pulse a few times to
combine. Sprinkle cold butter over top and pulse until the walnuts are chopped
and the mixture resembles small pebbles. (You may also combine in a bowl and
cut butter in by hand). Set aside in the refrigerator. - Cake: In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder,
baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside. - Using a stand or hand 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, alternately with sour cream in between each third. Beat until just
combined. Measure out 1/4 cup batter and set aside for cream cheese filling.
Stir chocolate chips and 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 1/4 cup reserved batter,
cream cheese, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 1/4 cup sugar. Beat on medium high speed
until smooth and creamy, about 1 minute. Spoon Cream Cheese Filling over batter
and gently smooth, but do not touch the sides of the pan. Spread reserved 1 cup
batter evenly over filling (it will be very thin). - Tap 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 degrees F or until toothpick
inserted comes out clean (without inserting in cream cheese). Some readers have
stated their cake was not done in 60 minutes, so if it’s not done, bake on! Let
baked cake cool on 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. Sprinkle cake with mini
chocolate chips (optional) - Store in the refrigerator for up to 7 days.
This article and recipe adapted from this site
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