Banana Cake

I have always been a fan of coffee cake.  The combination of nuts, cinnamon, and brown sugar smells fantastic while its baking.  A close second in this category is banana bread.  Making a cake that blends these two tastes is just deliciousness waiting to happen.  And the perfect recipe to use two lonely bananas about to rot on my counter top.  Hours later and my house still smells heavenly!

Ingredients:

Cake Batter:
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 ripe bananas
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
3 cups flour
2 cups sour cream (or vanilla yogurt)

Filling:
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 Tbs. cinnamon
1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans)
1 cup chocolate chips

Cream sugar and butter together.  Mix in eggs, vanilla, and bananas.  Mix in sour cream (or yogurt). In a separate bowl mix dry ingredients until blended.  Slowly add in dry ingredients with the wet.

In a separate bowl mix filling ingredients.

In a greased 9x13 pan pour half of the cake batter, then a layer of half of the filling.  Pour the rest of the cake batter then top off remaining filling mixture.

Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 45 minutes or until toothpick comes out of center clean.