Banana crunch crumb cake

This is a pretty easy and delicious cake. I made it tonight. It's a combination of a few recipes that I tweaked to make one cake. DH & I loved it. I was looking for something else to make with all the bananas that get over ripe in my house LOL.

INGREDIENTS

Cake:
1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
2 to 4 very ripe bananas, mashed (I used 4, a little too moist, I think 3 would be perfect)
1 teaspoon baking soda

For crumb topping:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix all w/ your hands util crumbly, don't over mix. Refrigerate until ready to use them.

For glaze:
1 & 1 /4 c. powdered sugar
approx. 3 Tbs. of milk or half & half
few drops of vanilla
Just mix together until a nice smooth glaze. Set aside.

DIRECTIONS
Prepare yellow cake mix according to package directions.
Mash the bananas with the baking soda and stir into the cake mix batter. Pour batter into one greased and floured 9x13 inch baking pan.
Cook at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 40 minutes. Take out and add crumb mixture evenly to the top. Put back in the oven for about 20 more minutes. Let cake cool and then sprinkle w/ powdered sugar (optional) and drizzle glaze all over the top.

Yummy!!

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Yumm!! Thats sounds really good. I stopped buying bananas since they always go bad. Now I have to buy them just to let them go over ripe to make this!!

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that sounds so good, I always just make banana bread.

FYI, you can peel and freeze ripe bananas for future use. (but you can't eat them plain once defrosted they get watery and yucky, but work great in cakes/breads)

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Yum - this sounds really good!

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I am going to have to try these - and I have bananas that are all ready for this recipe - thanks

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Does anyone have a recipe that I can fake yellow cake mix....I can't get that in the UK and that recipe sounds fantastic!

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My husband also makes crumble we got from a 3 ingredient cookbook. Sounds gross but it is awesome with ice cream. I'm sure you could od it with bananna. But here is the peach

1 box vanilla cake mix
1 stick margerine
Big can peaches in heavy syrup melt the butter and pour evenly over the peaches and cake mix in a 9X13 pan. bake at 350 for 30-40 mins or until golden brown. So good!

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