Banana bread crumb cake

From cookies and cups:

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serves 12

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 ripe bananas
• ½ cup butter, room temperature
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup milk

Crumb Filling and topping

• 1 cup cold butter, cubed
• 2 cups light brown sugar
• 2 cups flour

*optional glaze

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1-2 Tbsp milk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°
2. Spray a 9x13 baking dish with cooking spray, set aside
3. In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. set aside.
4. In a large bowl mash bananas until they become liquified.
5. Mix in butter until combined and then stir in sugar, eggs and vanilla until mixed well.
6. Stir in milk and flour until combined.

Crumb Filling/Topping

1. Prepare crumb filling/topping by combining all the ingredients together cutting them together with a fork or pastry cutter until a coarse crumb forms.
2. Pour ½ of the batter into the prepared pan. Top with ⅓ of the crumb mixture. Cover the filling with the remaining batter and top with remaining crumb mixture.
3. Bake for 50-55 minutes until the center is set and a toothpick comes out clean.
4. Cool for 10 minutes.
5. *If desired mix powdered sugar and milk together and drizzle on top.
6. Can be served warm or at room temperature.

Can be served room temperature or warm.
Store airtight for up to 2 days.

Banana Cake with cream cheese frosting

Dense cake, similar in texture to a carrot cake. The baking time may vary based on individual ovens, but an hour is pretty accurate.

1 1/2 cups ripe bananas, mashed

2 teaspoons lemon juice

3 cups flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup butter, softened

2 1/8 cups sugar

3 large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 1/2 cups buttermilk

Frosting

1/2 cup butter, softened

8 ounce cream cheese, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 275° (yes two-seventy five).  Grease and flour a 9 x 13 pan. In a small bowl, mix mashed banana with the lemon juice; set aside. In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, cream 3/4 cup butter and 2 1/8 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then stir in 2 tsp vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Stir in banana mixture. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for one hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Remove from oven and place directly into the fridge for 45 minutes. For the frosting, cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth. Beat in 1 teaspoon vanilla. Add powdered sugar and beat on low speed until combined, then on high speed until frosting is smooth. Spread on cooled cake.

Too easy Banana Bread

1 box yellow cake mix

2 eggs
3-4 overripe bananas

Add all ingredients to a large bowl and mix well. Fill two small, greased loaf pans or one large loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes (longer if using large loaf pan.)

Even though I have a banana bread recipe that I really like I found this one on the web and thought I'd post it for those times when there just wasn't time to make banana bread the real way, but you have over-ripe bananas and you want to use them up.  I haven't tried this but it looks pretty easy.  Plus you could probably do these in a muffin tin pan too.  (I'd bake them at the same temperature for about 20 minutes, test for doneness.)

Susie's Banana Bread

Ingredients:

1/2 c shortening

1 c sugar

2 eggs

3/4 c mashed bananas (usually 2)

1 1/4 c flour

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

Cream shortening and sugar, add eggs, bananas. Add dry ingredients, mix well; pour into loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 min. If baked in a 9x9x2 pan, decrease time to 30-35 min.