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    Published: Sep 5, 2018 · Modified: Dec 29, 2021 by Cynthia · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

    Sour Cream Banana Coffee Cake

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    This is a moist delicious coffee cake with a hint of banana, cinnamon oat pecan streusel, and a vanilla drizzle.

    Two slices of Sour Cream Banana Coffee Cake on a cutting board.
    Slices of Sour Cream Banana Coffee Cake

    OK. So I don't LOVE bananas.  I usually eat one every morning because it's good for me.  I have diabetes, there's some dodgy heart issues lurking about...basically, a banana has lots of good stuff in it that I'm supposed to put inside of me. But unless they're barely ripe and not the least bit squishy, I just can't. I also can't seem to eat them before they turn brown.  What to do? I can't be throwing away perfectly good (from a nutritional standpoint) food and no one else in my house seems to eat them, so I figured out a way to put those brown spotted beasts in a coffee cake so that it barely even tastes like banana!! HaHa! Fooled myself! So tricksy! And it's DELICIOUS!

    Next hurdle. Probably the most challenging part of making cakes and cupcakes, for me, is creaming the butter and the sugar.  Sounds easy, right? What's the problem? Well, how soft should the butter be? No one ever really defines that. When I watch a video or look at a recipe, my butter/sugar mix NEVER looks like that. So after much Googlification, I came across a reference to reverse creaming! Sounds weird and complicated, I know, but it couldn't be simpler. You just put all your dry ingredients together; flour, sugar, leavening agents, and mix in your butter or oil (whatever fat is called for) until it looks like cornmeal or damp sand. Then you add your wet ingredients; milk, eggs, vanilla, etc, until combined.  That's it!

    So, let's apply that mind-bending technique to my Sour Cream Banana Coffee Cake! C'mon! I believe in you!

    Pandemic Pantry Tips:

    I ran out of sour cream, but I have Greek yogurt. It’s a one-for-one sub. Just use the yogurt!

    Don't have pecans? Use walnuts, almonds, or no nuts. Go nuts! Or not.

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    Two slices of Sour Cream Banana Coffee Cake on a cutting board.

    Sour Cream Banana Coffee Cake

    This is a moist delicious coffee cake with a hint of banana, cinnamon oat pecan streusel, and a vanilla drizzle.
    5 from 1 vote
    Author: Cynthia
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    Prep Time 15 mins
    Cook Time 1 hr
    Cooling time 30 mins
    Total Time 1 hr 45 mins
    Course Breakfast, Brunch, Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 12 slices
    Calories 463 kcal

    Ingredients
     

    Dry Ingredients

    • 2 ½ cup (300 g) cake flour
    • 1 ½ cup (300 g) granulated sugar
    • 2 teaspoon baking powder
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 1 ½ stick (170 g) unsalted butter

    Wet Ingredients

    • 1 cup (240 g) sour cream
    • 2 (236 g) Bananas mashed
    • 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 3 large (150 g) eggs

    Streusel Ingredients

    • ¼ cup (50 g) brown sugar
    • ½ cup (60 g) all purpose flour
    • 2 teaspoon cinnamon
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • ½ cup whole oats
    • 1 cup (100 g) pecans chopped
    • 4 tablespoon (56 g) unsalted butter cut in cubes

    Glaze Ingredients

    • 2 tablespoon (30 g) cream cheese
    • 2 tablespoon heavy cream
    • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 1 cup (120 g) powdered sugar

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a tube pan.
    • Let's start with the streusel. In a food processor, pulse sugar, flour, cinnamon, and salt until fully combined. Add butter cubes and pulse 2-3 times until butter is broken up into pea sized and smaller pieces. Pour into a bowl and mix in the oats and chopped pecans. Set aside and don't pick at it. Maybe a little.
    • Sift all the dry ingredients together and mix for one minute in stand mixer. Add butter and mix until the texture of cornmeal or damp sand.
    • Whisk together all the wet ingredients. Add to dry ingredients and mix on medium speed until fully incorporated, about 1 minute. At this point, I always use a rubber spatula and give everything a good stir. Stand mixers sometimes miss bits on the bottom, and we want to get all the good stuff together. So give it a few stirs. Thanks.
    • Pour 3 cups of the batter evenly into the pan. Sprinkle with ¾ cup of the streusel. Pour over the remaining batter and sprinkle the rest of the streusel on top. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
    • Cool for 30 minutes on wire rack. Transfer cake, streusel side up onto cake plate (I cover the top with foil to "contain" the streusel and use a plate to flip it out, them flip it back over onto a cake plate). Let cool about 30 minutes. In the meantime, mix the glaze ingredients together. You might need a 3rd tablespoon of cream to get it to a good drizzly consistency. Try 2 tablespoon and see how you feel and add more if you want it a little more drizzly. Use a fork to spritzle it all over the cake. You're done! Cut it up and eat it. It's gonna be great!

    Nutrition

    Calories: 463kcal | Carbohydrates: 72g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 29g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 9g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 103mg | Sodium: 347mg | Potassium: 209mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 43g | Vitamin A: 744IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 95mg | Iron: 1mg

    The nutritional and caloric information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator. It does not assert or suggest that readers should or should not count calories, and should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s or doctor’s counseling.

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