Banana Nut Crumble

Looking for an alternative to banana bread or banana muffins for proper disposal of your elderly bananas?  Love butter and sugar?  Well, you're in the right spot!

Ingredients
Cake mix
2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
3 ripe bananas
1 stick (1/2 cup) room temperature butter
2 cups (white) sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup milk

Crumb mix
2 sticks (1 cup) cold butter
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups flour
1 cup nuts, your choice and option

Preheat oven to 350. Spray your 9x13 pan generously.

Start by mixing your cake mix bananas, room temperature butter, white sugar, eggs and vanilla until lumpy but relatively smooth. You are supposed to mix the flour and powder well but I always mix in my powder now - until well mixed. Then gradually and alternately mix in your flour and milk.  Set aside while you make the crumb mix.

Use a pastry knife to cut your butter, brown sugar and flour together. Tip: if you don't have enough brown sugar use 2 Tbsp molasses for every cup of white sugar as substitute. I used 1 cup brown sugar, 2 Tbsp molasses and 1 cup white sugar for mine. Apparently you can substitute white sugar directly for brown but it might be crispier than if you add the molasses or use brown sugar as you are supposed to.  Also, cut your cold butter in before you add the nuts - makes things easier.  Once you have the butter cut in well add the nuts and stir until well mixed.

Now the fun part! 

Add half of the cake mixture to the pan. Then 1/3 of the crumb mix followed by the rest of the cake mix and topped off with the remaining crumb mix.  If you have problems getting the cake mix to cover the first crumb topping let it set for a minute and then smooth it over. If it doesn't work just know that it worked well for me and that's what matters. :)

Bake for 50 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean. Cool for about 10 minutes and then you are ready to cut and enjoy!

Good stuff.