Banana-Sour Cream Streusel Coffee Cake (Mine)

Streusel Topping:

1/3 c butter
3/4 c flour
1/2 c sugar
3/4 t cinnamon (or to your liking)

Cake:

1/2 c Shortening
1 c Sugar
2 Eggs
1 c Bananas; mashed
1 ts Vanilla extract
1 ts Banana extract (optional)
1/2 c Sour cream
a few drops yellow food coloring (optional)
2 c All-purpose flour
1 ts Baking powder
1 ts Soda
1/4 ts Salt
cinnamon and nutmeg added to your liking

For The Streusel Topping:

Using a pastry blender, combine butter, flour, sugar and cinnamon until it has the appearance of large crumbs.

For The Cakes:

Combine shortening and 1 cup sugar; cream until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, bananas, vanilla and banana extract. Stir in sour cream and a few drops of food coloring, if desired.

Combine remaining dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture, and stir just enough to blend.

Pour batter into two 8" X 8" pans. Sprinkle streusel topping on top of each cake. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes or until cake tests done.

Yield--Two 9" X 9" streusel coffeecakes.

Optional: Make a cinnamon-sugar filling for this cake if desired by filling each pan with half of the batter allocated for that pan and then sprinkling half of a combination of 1/3 cup sugar and 3/4 tsp. cinnamon over it. Then place the other half of the batter over the filling and finish with streusel topping as stated above.

AUTHOR: Jerseygirl