Cinnamon Sugar Streusel Banana Bread

Cinnamon Sugar Banana Streusel Bread — 🍌🤤 Super SOFT and tender banana bread that’s impossible to resist!! The crispy, crumbly, streusel topping makes a good thing even BETTER!! An EASY no-mixer recipe and can be baked as one large loaf if you prefer!!

With over 40+ banana bread recipes, I didn’t have one with a streusel topping, and since I cannot resist streusel anything I knew I needed to make banana bread with the crispy, slightly crunchy streusel nuggets on top!

The banana streusel bread is super soft, tender, moist, and is impossible to resist!

I used my Cream Cheese-Filled Banana Bread as the banana bread base and halved the streusel recipe in my Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake recipe. No need to reinvent the wheel when I already knew I had two solid recipes in place and I combined them into these three mini loaves.

This is an easy, no mixer recipe that goes from bowl to oven in minutes.

Recipe Ingredients

I’m not kidding when I say this is the world’s best banana bread! It’s so simple to prepare and bakes up perfectly moist and tender every time. Here’s what you’ll need:

Banana Bread:

• Egg 
• Brown sugar
• Granulated sugar
• Canola oil
• Greek yogurt or sour cream
• Vanilla extract
• Ripe bananas
• All-purpose flour
• Cinnamon
• Baking powder and baking soda
• Salt

Streusel Topping:

• Butter
• All-purpose flour
• Granulated sugar
• Brown sugar
• Cinnamon
• Salt

Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.

How to Make Banana Bread with Streusel Topping

This banana crumb bread is very easy to make! The streusel topping takes maybe an extra 5 minutes to prepare, if that. 

1. Make the streusel topping: Melt the butter and very lightly ‘fluff in’ the sugars, cinnamon, and salt.
2. Combine the wet ingredients: The banana bread batter is pretty straightforward. Whisk the wet ingredients including the egg, sugars, oil, yogurt, and vanilla together.
3. Add the dry ingredients: Add the bananas before lightly folding in the remaining dry ingredients.
4. Bake: Turn batter out into pan, sprinkle with the streusel, and bake. Your house will smell absolutely heavenly!

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4.66 from 35 votes

Cinnamon Sugar Banana Streusel Bread

By Averie Sunshine

🍌🤤 Super SOFT and tender banana bread that's impossible to resist!! The crispy, crumbly, streusel topping makes a good thing even BETTER!! An EASY no-mixer recipe and can be baked as one large loaf if you prefer!!

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 32 minutes minutes

Additional Time: 30 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 12 minutes minutes

Servings: 10

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Ingredients 

Streusel Topping

• ▢ 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• ▢ ⅓ to ½ cup all-purpose flour, plus 1 to 2 tablespoons more if needed
• ▢ 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• ▢ 2 tablespoons light brown sugar, packed
• ▢ 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon salt, or to taste

Bread

• ▢ 1 large egg
• ▢ ½ cup light brown sugar, packed
• ▢ ¼ cup granulated sugar
• ▢ ¼ cup canola or vegetable oil, liquid-state coconut oil may be substituted
• ▢ ¼ cup cup sour cream, lite is okay; or Greek yogurt may be substituted
• ▢ 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• ▢ 1 cup mashed ripe bananas, about 2 large bananas
• ▢ 1 cup all-purpose flour
• ▢ 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ▢ ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ▢ ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon salt, or to taste

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Instructions 

• Preheat oven to 350F. And spray

  three 5x3x2-inch mini baking pans very well with floured cooking spray or grease and flour the pans; set aside. See Notes about baking pan options.

Streusel Topping:

• To a medium bowl, add the melted butter, 1/3 cup flour, sugars, cinnamon salt, and fluff very lightly with a fork to combine until small marbles and pebbles form. You are not ‘stirring’, you are fluffing lightly and gently.
• If the topping is very wet and is not fluffing into small pebbles and marbles and is more like wet sand, add additional flour up to 1/2 cup total, or as necessary, to create a streusel; set aside.

Bread:

• To a large bowl, add the egg, sugars, oil, sour cream, vanilla, and whisk to combine.
• Add the bananas and stir to incorporate.
• Add the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and fold with spatula or stir gently with a spoon until just combined; don’t overmix.
• Evenly turn batter out into each of the three prepared pans, smoothing the tops lightly with a spatula.
• Evenly divide and sprinkle the streusel topping over the top of each pan.
• Bake for about 30 to 34 minutes (I baked 32 minutes), or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Start checking at 25 minutes for doneness. Because all bananas vary in their moisture content, and because all ingredients, ovens, and climates vary, the baking times listed are only guidelines and you need to bake your banana bread until it is done. Watch your bread, not the clock.
• Allow bread to cool in pans for about 30 minutes or until cool enough to turn out.

Notes

1. In this recipe, the yield of 10 means 10 servings total, not 10 loaves. Each of the 3 mini loaves can be sliced into about 7-8 slices.

2. I have only made this exact recipe, exactly like this, in 5x3x2-inch mini loaf pans. However the banana bread recipe itself is adapted from Cream Cheese-Filled Banana Bread which is baked in a 9×5-inch loaf pan and baked for 48-50 minutes. If you’re baking this in a 9×5-inch pan, since it doesn’t have a layer of cream cheese in the middle, I am guessing that it would bake in about 45 minutes, but you need to watch your bread and not the clock when evaluating for doneness. I don’t recommend baking this in two 8×4-inch pans because the loaves I fear will be very short and squat, and not very ‘tall’ like you’d want in banana bread.

3. Banana bread is notorious for fooling you and you think it’s done, but it’s really not. Make sure a toothpick inserted deep into the center comes out clean before you decide it’s done and pull it from the oven.

4. Storage: Bread will keep airtight at room temp for 5 days or in the freezer for up to 4 months, noting the streusel may not stay as crispy and crunchy after freezing/thawing but the taste will still be great.

Streusel adapted from Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake and Banana Bread adapted from Cream Cheese-Filled Banana Bread.

Nutrition

Serving: 1, Calories: 243kcal, Carbohydrates: 35g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 11g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g, Cholesterol: 31mg, Sodium: 206mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 21g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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