Banana Coffee Cake W Macadamia Coconut Streusel Food

BANANA STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 13" x 9" baking pan.
• Cream 3/4 cup butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs and vanilla, beating well.
• Stir in cream; mix well.
• Sift together dry ingredients; add to creamed batter; mixing well.
• Then fold in sliced bananas.
• Spread mixture into prepared baking pan.
• FOR STREUSEL: Mix together brown sugar, flour and cinnamon; cut in butter, until mixture is crumbly.
• Sprinkle on top of coffeecake.
• Bake for 45-50 minutes, or until cake tests done.

BANANA COFFEE CAKE W/ MACADAMIA-COCONUT STREUSEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Coat a 9-inch round cake pan with cooking spray; line bottom of pan with wax paper. Coat wax paper with cooking spray.
• Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.
• Combine flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a bowl, stirring with a whisk.
• Combine banana and next 5 ingredients (banana through egg) in a bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed for 1 minute or until well blended.
• Add flour mixture to banana mixture, and beat until blended. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan.
• Carefully peel off wax paper.
• Combine brown sugar, water, and butter in a small saucepan; bring to a boil.
• Cook 1 minute, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat; stir in nuts and coconut.
• Spread over cake.
• Serve cake warm.

COCONUT STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Butter and flour an 8-inch square or round baking pan (a bundt pan also works well).
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• For the streusel: In a small skillet or saucepan melt the butter over medium-low heat and add dessicated coconut and walnuts. Cook, stirring occasionally for 8-10 minutes, or until coconut and walnuts start to get toasty and smell fragrant. Be careful not to burn. Remove from heat and stir in brown sugar and cinnamon and empty half this mixture into the bottom of your prepared baking pan. Reserve other half.
• For the cake: In a small bowl, whisk together eggs, coconut milk, liqueur and orange zest. Set aside.
• In a large mixer bowl, cream butter with sugar for 5 minutes, or until light in color and fluffy. You may need to scrape down the sides and bottom of bowl a couple of times with a spatula. Add baking powder, baking soda, vanilla extract, salt, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, nutmeg and cloves.
• Add flour, alternately with wet ingredients (egg, etc.) until blended through. You may need to scrape down the sides and bottom of bowl a couple of times with a spatula.
• Pour 3/4 s of the batter into your prepared pan and layer with reserved streusel mixture. Pour remaining batter over top and run knife through pan, marbling streusel into the batter.
• Bake for approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool 20 minutes before removing from pan.

BANANA COFFEE CAKE WITH STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350.
• Grease and flour 9 1/2 x 4 inch tube pan.
• Stir chopped chocolate, brown sugar, walnuts and cinnamon in small bowl.
• Stir till blended, set aside.
• Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl.
• Set aside.
• Cream butter in a large bowl using an electric mixer till light and creamy.
• Add sugar gradually.
• When mixture is fluffy, add egg 1 at a time.
• Beat in mashed bananas, coffee and buttermilk.
• Add in dry ingredients and blend well.
• Pour half of batter in prepared tube pan.
• Sprinkle half of the streusel topping.
• Repeat with remaining batter ending with streusel topping.
• Bake banana coffeecake about 45 minutes.
• Till tester comes out clean when dipped in the center.
• Cool in pan on wire rack.
• Slice and Serve warm.
• Deeeelicious!