Recipe: Coffee Cake Banana Bread

1/2 cup unsalted butter

3-4 medium or large very ripe bananas

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1 cup light brown sugar

2 large eggs

2 cups whole wheat pastry flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

2 tbsp sour cream or Greek yogurt

crumble topping

6 tbsp unsalted butter, cold

1 cup light brown sugar

1 cup whole wheat pastry flour

1/2 cup pecans, chopped

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/8 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 350˚ Fahrenheit. Grease a 9X5 loaf pan with butter or baking spray.

In a medium stainless steel skillet, melt the butter over medium heat. Continue to heat until it foams, pops and crackles. You will start to see brown flecks. Transfer to a bowl to let cool.

In a large bowl, mash the bananas with a fork. Mix in the vanilla and cinnamon.

Mix the brown butter, sugar and eggs into the banana mixture.

To the wet ingredients, sift in flour, baking soda and salt. Combine well. Mix in the sour cream.

Using clean fingers, combine all the streusel ingredients in a medium bowl. The mixture should resemble coarse crumbs.

Transfer the batter to the prepared loaf pan. Top with the streusel.

Bake for about 40 minutes or until a wooden skewer comes out virtually crumb free.

Allow to cool for 10 minutes then transfer to a serving platter.

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Recipe: Coffee Cake Banana Bread