Apple Banana Coffee Cake with Chocolate Chip Streusel

 

The original recipe seemed huge, so I halved it. And I saw another blogger, Kristy using apple in this, so I followed suit, to add an apple to the batter. This recipe has been made by a lot of bloggers, just by googling you can find loads of them, but google without the apple word to find try-outs with the original recipe.

Coffee cakes are cakes that are meant to be eaten with a cup of coffee, due to the sweetness, and they usually comes with streusel topping. So, don't be looking through my recipe searching for the coffee ingredient. No, it is non existent.

Very nice cake, the streusel’s great. Get a cup of coffee with this , yea!!

Apple Banana Coffee Cake with Chocolate Chip Streusel Recipe

Recipe adapted from Epicurious who adapted from Bon Apetit Magazine

Cake batter

100gm all purpose flour

1/3 tsp baking powder

1/3 tsp baking soda

60gm butter

50gm brown sugar

1 egg

150gm banana (weighed without skin), mashed

1 green apple, peeled, cored and sliced thinly.

Streusel mixture

50gm brown sugar (can be reduced to 30gm)

50gm walnuts, chopped

½ tsp cinnamon powder (you can put more if you like, but as usual I always greatly reduce this)

80gm chocolate chips (I used half white half milk choc)

1. Preheat oven at 170/180C. Line a 8 inch round pan or a 7 inch square pan. (a 7 inch round pan will be fine too, as my 8 inch round only yielded an 1.5 inch cake.

2. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda together. Mix in salt, set aside.

3. Prepare streusel mixture by mixing all of the ingredients together.

4. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

5. Add in egg and beat until well combined, it may look curdled.

6. Put in bananas and mix.

7. Put in the flour mixture and mix until well combined. It looks rather thick.

8. Put half the batter into pan, and level the batter. (the batter don’t seem to be a lot, but don’t worry, it’s enough to be spread around the pan)

9. Arrange half the apple slices onto batter and top with half of the streusel mixture.

10. Dollop the remaining batter by the tablespoons into pan, try to put the dollops evenly spaced out on the first layer of streusel. Then use a spatula to even out(press and spread) the dollops of batter. (This step is a bit tricky because the streusel from below tends to come up and stick to the upper layer of batter.)

11. Arrange the remaining apple slices and top with remaining streusel mixture.

12. Bake for 30 minutes or until tooth pick come out clean.

****The batter may look thick, but the cake is soft and fluffy.