Banana Bread Bundt Cake with Apples and Nuts
Moist banana cake filled with sweet apples, crunchy nuts, and a delicate cinnamon swirl for a comforting, homemade treat.
- 3 mashed ripe bananas
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla sugar
- 1.5 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts
- 3/4 cup diced apples
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup chopped nuts or orange peel (optional)
- 2 Tbsp brown sugar
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Prepare the cinnamon swirl by mixing the sugar and cinnamon and set aside.
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Chop nuts and toast them on a pan. Toss the nuts 3 to 4 times to toast them evenly on all sides and to make sure that they don't burn. Set them aside.
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Mix melted butter and brown sugar. Stir in the eggs until well combined. Then add mashed bananas and vanilla.
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In another bowl, mix flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
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Cut apples into cubes. Coat them in a bit of flour so that they don't sink.
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Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Carefully mix dry ingredients with wet ingredients until combined.
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Add chopped nuts and apples to the batter.- 8
Grease the Bundt pan with butter and add the topping (nuts or orange peel along with sugar - optional).
Carefully place half of the batter into the Bundt pan using spatula so that the topping doesn't mix with batter. Then drizzle half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Carefully add the remaining batter on top and sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Swirl carefully with the knife and make sure to not touch the bottom part for the topiing to stay in one place.
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Bake 40-50 minutes and check for doneness until a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes and transfer to a plate or cake board.
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