Cinnamon Streusel Banana Bread
Delicious banana bread recipe, perfected with buttermilk and scrumptious cinnamon streusel topping. Full of flavor, this banana bread will be a family favorite recipe!
Servings: 10 Servings
Ingredients
- 1/2 Cup Butter Softened
- 1/2 Cup Sugar
- 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1 TSP Vanilla Extract
- 1 1/2 Cups Smashed Bananas About 4 Bananas
- 1/2 Cup Buttermilk or Buttermilk Substitute
- 2 Cups Flour
- 1 TSP Baking Soda
- 1/2 TSP Salt
Cinnamon Streusel Topping
- 1/4 Cup Flour
- 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
- 1 TSP Cinnamon
- 1/4 Cup Butter Cold
Instructions
Cinnamon Streusel Topping
- Combine brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon. Mix well.
- Cut butter into small cubes and combine with dry ingredients.
- Blend with fingers quickly to avoid butter melting to create a crumbly mixture.
- Refrigerate until batter is ready.
Banana Bread Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a standard loaf pan.
- Smash bananas in a separate dish. Set aside.
- In another bowl, combine flour, salt, and baking soda.
- Cream softened butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time and mix well.
- Add buttermilk, vanilla, and bananas to mixture and blend well.
- Add the dry ingredients a half cup at a time and mix until just blended. Be careful not to over mix.
- Pour batter into the prepared bread loaf pan.
- Evenly sprinkle cinnamon streusel mixture to the top of the batter.
- Bake in oven for 55 minutes and then check bread every 5 minutes with a toothpick. Done when toothpick comes out cleanly.
- Allow to cool 15 minutes before removing from the pan to a cooling rack to cool completely.
