Tasty Tuesday - Banana Bread with Streusel Nut Topping

Last week, I invited the other Girlfriend over to my house to do some blog planning. While the littles played, she and I drank hot tea and nibbled on the bread below. Let's just say, my very pregnant friend REALLY liked the banana bread. I hope you like it too and if you want to be really popular, invite a girlfriend over and share it! Banana Bread with Streusel Nut Topping

Bread
2 cups all purpose flour
1 ½ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg
¼ tsp. salt
2 beaten eggs
1 ½ cups mashed bananas (5 bananas)
1 cup sugar
¼ cup cooking oil
¼ cup applesauce
¼ cup chopped walnuts

Streusel-Nut Topping
¼ cup packed brown sugar
3 Tbsp. all purpose flour
2 Tbsp. softened butter
1/3 cup chopped nuts

In a small bowl, combine brown sugar and flour. Using a pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbles. Stir in nuts.

Grease bottom and 1.2 inches up the sides of one 9 x 5 x 3 inch or two 7 ½ x 3 ½ x 2 inch loaf pans and set aside. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Make a well in center of flour mixture and set aside.

In a medium bowl combine eggs, bananas, sugar, oil, and applesauce. Add egg mixture all at once to flour mixture. Stir just until moistened. Fold in nuts. Spoon batter into prepared pan(s). Sprinkle Streusel-Nut Topping over batter.

Bake in a 350° oven for 55 to 60 minutes for a larger loaf pan and 40 – 45 minutes for two smaller pans or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan.
Cool completely on a wire rack.

Your Girlfriend, Michelle