Banana Crumb Cake Recipe
This Banana Crumb Cake Recipe is soft, sweet and very comforting. It is perfect for breakfast, tea time or dessert.
Ingredients
For the Cake Batter
- 3 ripe bananas mashed
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup unsalted butter melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
For the Crumb Topping
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ cup cold unsalted butter cubed
Instructions
Prepare the oven
- Preheat your oven to 350°F. Grease the baking pan lightly. This helps the cake release easily after baking.
Mash the bananas
- Peel the ripe bananas. Mash them with a fork until smooth. Small lumps are fine and add texture.
Mix wet ingredients
- Add egg, milk, melted butter, and vanilla to bananas. Whisk gently until everything looks smooth and creamy.
Combine dry ingredients
- In another bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon until well combined.
Make the batter
- Add dry ingredients into wet mixture slowly. Stir gently with a spatula. Stop mixing when batter looks smooth.
Prepare crumb topping
- Mix flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and butter. Use fingers until crumbs form. The texture should look sandy.
Assemble the cake
- Pour batter into prepared pan. Spread evenly. Sprinkle crumb topping generously over the batter surface.
Bake the cake
- Place pan in oven. Bake for forty minutes. The top should be golden and a toothpick clean.
Cool before serving
- Remove cake from oven. Let it cool for fifteen minutes. This helps the cake set properly.
Notes
- Use very ripe bananas for best flavor.
- Do not overmix the batter.
- Cold butter makes better crumbs.
- Check cake at thirty-five minutes.
- Let cake cool before slicing.