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Eggnog Banana bread with Nutmeg Streusel

Eggnog Brown Sugar Banana Bread with Nutmeg Streusel


Course Dessert
Cuisine American, German
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 50 minutes
Servings 8
Author Lora Wiley-Lennartz

Ingredients

For the cake:

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 stick 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 +1/2 cups white granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup eggnog
  • 3 ripe mashed bananas

For the Brown Sugar Streusel:

  • 1 stick 1/2 cup unsalted butter room temperature
  • 3/4 cup flour
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon ground nutmeg

Instructions

Make the brown sugar streusel:

  1. Place the unsalted butter, brown sugar and all-purpose flour into a bowl. Use your fingers or a large fork to rub the mixture together until it begins to combine.
  2. Add nutmeg and continue to combine until the mixture resembles streusel. Set aside.

Make the cake:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Spray or grease a medium size loaf pan.
  3. Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon and set aside.
  4. Cream together butter and sugar.
  5. Add eggs and incorporate thoroughly.
  6. Add vanilla and eggnog.
  7. Mix in bananas.
  8. Slow mixer down to low speed and slowly add the flour mixture.
  9. Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf pan and top with the streusel mixture on top.
  10. Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes or until a cake tester or knife inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean.
  11. Remove from the oven and let the bread stand 15 minutes before removing from the pan.
  12. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool almost completely before slicing and serving. This bread is extra delicious served a bit warm.