Banana Coffee Cake with Chocolate Streusel

5 from 5 votes

Banana Coffee Cake with Chocolate Streusel

A whole wheat vegan Banana Coffee Cake that's as delicious as it's pretty. The cake has a topping of walnut-and-chocolate-chip streusel. A vegan, soy-free recipe.

Prep Time20

Cook Time45

Total Time1 5

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian

Servings:

Calories: 243kcal

Author: Vaishali · Holy Cow Vegan

Ingredients

For the streusel topping

1 ¼ cup semisweet chocolate chips
½ cup walnuts chopped
⅓ cup sugar
2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

For the cake batter

1 ½ cups whole wheat pastry flour can use half regular whole wheat and half all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking soda
¾ teaspoon baking powder
½ cup applesauce
½ cup sugar
¼ cup avocado oil or any neutral oil
¼ cup nondairy milk
1 teaspoon vinegar
2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 large bananas mashed

Instructions

Make the streusel by mixing well all of the streusel ingredients in a bowl. Set aside.
Whisk together the sugar, oil and vanilla extract for a minute, either in the bowl of a stand mixer or with a hand mixer. If you don't have either, use a whisk but make sure you beat well for about 2 minutes.
Add the nondairy milk, vinegar, mashed bananas and applesauce and beat for another minute until everything is well incorporated.
Mix the flour with the baking soda and baking powder. Whisk.
Add the flour to the banana-oil-applesauce mix in two batches, beating for 20 seconds after each addition. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl with a spatula to ensure everything's well integrated and you don't have any streaks of dry flour.
Oil and flour a cake pan. The one I used was a square pan that's 9 X 9 X 2 inches, but you can use a regular 8- or 9-inch cake pan if you'd rather.
Pour half of the cake batter in the pan and with a spatula make sure it is spread in an even layer. Sprinkle half of the chocolate streusel topping on the batter.
Pour in the remaining half of the batter and smooth over the chocolate streusel. Sprinkle the remaining streusel on top.
Bake the cake in a preheated 350-degree Fahrenheit oven for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool in the pan on a rack.
Slice and eat.

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