Banana Walnut Bundt Coffee Cake

I had some bananas that were forgotten on the counter AND I found some walnuts that I bought for Christmas and didn't use. What goes better than bananas and walnuts??

I wanted to try something a little different. I started to go healthy but then decided, what the heck, let's just do this;)

1/2 C Walnuts, Chopped ~ optional
½ C Brown Sugar
¼ C Sugar
3 t Cinnamon
2 T Soft Butter
Mix this together for your dry topping

2 C Flour
½ t Salt
1 t Baking Powder
1 t Baking Soda
1 C Sugar
4 Egg Whites or 2 whole Eggs
2 t Vanilla
4 Mashed RIPE Bananas
1 C Light Sour Cream or Yogurt ~ I've used both
1/4 C Soft Butter

Mix the wet ingredients, add the dry to make your batter. It's kind of sticky, not like a cake mix, more like a wet bread dough.

Drizzle
1/2 C Powdered Sugar
1 T Milk
1 t Vanilla
¼ C Chopped Walnuts~optional but I put them in IF I used them inside so everyone knows nuts are involved. Mix together and drizzle over the top of the cake.

Preparation Instructions
Spoon half the batter into a well greased bundt pan. Top with 2/3 of the dry filling. To make the cake “prettier”, try to keep the filling from touching the edges of the pan. Spoon rest of the batter into pan and top with remaining dry filling. Bake at 350 for about 35-45 minutes, test with skewer to make sure skewer comes out clean of batter. Top will be a golden brown. Cool for about 10 minutes and flip onto favorite cake plate.

Drizzle your glaze over cake and serve.

If you want to make this even easier and don’t want to mess around with a bundt pan, you can pour into 13×9, top with dry filling and bake for about 20-25 minutes, top with glaze. Here is your batter. See what I mean about being sticky. This is what a bundt pan looks like. Remember though you can use a 13x9 cake pan and get the same results so if you don't have one, don't let that stop you.

Spoon 2/3 the batter into the pan and sprinkle with 2/3 of your dry ingredients. Try to keep it from the edge, makes for a prettier cake. And, they aren't really "dry" they are more moist, kind of like wet sand...I know that doesn't sound appetizing but I'm trying to give you a visual;)
Spread the rest of the batter on top.
Top with rest of the dry filling. Bake for 35-45 minutes until tester comes out clean.
You can stop here

OR you can make it that much better with a drizzle
If you're like me, this won't be your only piece