Banana Coffee Cake with Sour Cream Glaze

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• I always thought coffee cake – like platform shoes, zoot suits and CD players – had gone out of style.
  
  It seemed like all coffee cakes had sticky-sweet filling, sugary streusel topping and even more sugary frosting drizzled over that. It was tasty, sure, but it was nothing new.
  
  I admit I’d given up a bit on coffee cake for a while – the minute I saw it, I knew what it would taste like, and that was enough for me to pass. But it was time to rekindle my relationship with coffee cake once and for all, homemade-style. This Banana Coffee Cake with Sour Cream Glaze was up for the challenge!
  
  Though I can’t eat bananas (unfortunately, I’m very allergic), the smell of this concoction while I was mixing it up was enticing. Once it was in the oven and scents of cream cheese, butter and bananas wafted throughout the kitchen, I knew that coffee cake and I were at peace once again.
  
  And when you combine the delicious scents of the cake with sweet and tart sour cream glaze? My friends, this is a whole new dimension of coffee cake.
  
  This recipe renders a dense, rich cake, so even one slice of the stuff will fuel you for the morning. It’s moist and cake-like, and (from what I hear) the flavors of banana, butter and cream cheese all whipped together under a thin coating of sour cream glaze work very well together.
  
  It’s the perfect thing to eat on a leisurely weekend morning or afternoon, or when you’ve got company and want to surprise them with a delicious (yet easy-to-make) homemade breakfast. It’s also the perfect thing to make when you’re tired of run-of-the-mill coffee cakes and want to change it up a bit. But some things – cough, Zubaz pants, cough – aren’t meant for a comeback.
  
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