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Streusel Banana Bread

By Cindy Rahe
Created January 10, 2017
A sweet, crumbly topping makes this classic treat into something a little more special in this Streusel Topped Banana Bread.
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I love banana bread in so many different ways: plain with a smear of soft butter, with lots of crunchy walnuts, a boozy hit of bourbon, or even with bittersweet chocolate chips strewn throughout. This Streusel Banana Bread may be my favorite version, though, since it combines the classic with a sweet, buttery, irresistible topping. 

My favorite muffins always seem to include a healthy sprinkling of crunchy streusel, so why not my favorite banana bread? This cinnamon-laced, buttery streusel is near perfection on top of fragrant and moist banana bread, I am surprised I’ve never tried it before. To start, we make a simple streusel topping with just a few ingredients: sugar, flour, cinnamon, and butter.

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While the oven preheats, we assemble our ingredients for the batter. The dry mix comes together with just some flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt and cinnamon.

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The wet mix begins with super-ripe and freckly bananas, plus, sugar, an egg, a bit of milk, vanilla and melted butter.

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The batter comes together with some quick folding of the wet and dry ingredients, and then gets spread into a greased loaf pan.

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Then, we streusel!

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After the required visit to the oven, the bread is golden, fragrant and delicious.

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Ingredients

  • Streusel
    • 3tablespoons Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
    • 3tablespoons sugar
    • 1/2teaspoon ground cinnamon
    • 1tablespoon butter, cut into pieces
  • Bread
    • 4very ripe bananas, mashed
    • 6tablespoons butter, melted, cooled to room temperature
    • 1cup sugar
    • 1egg
    • 1teaspoon vanilla
    • 1/4cup milk
    • 1 1/2cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
    • 1teaspoon baking powder
    • 1/8teaspoon salt
    • 1/2teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions

  • 1Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly spray 9x5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
  • 2In small bowl, stir together Streusel ingredients except butter. Pinch pieces of butter into flour mixture until crumbly and looks like wet sand. Refrigerate.
  • 3In large bowl, mix mashed bananas, melted and cooled butter, 1 cup sugar, the egg, milk and vanilla to combine. In another small bowl, stir together 1 1/2 cups flour, the baking powder, salt and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Fold banana mixture into flour mixture just until combined, taking care not to over mix. Spread batter in loaf pan, smoothing top. Sprinkle streusel evenly over top.
  • 4Bake in center of oven about 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on cooling rack 5 minutes. Remove from pan; cool at least 15 minutes before slicing.

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