Bananas Foster Crunch Cake

This is a deliscious cake! Not too difficult recipe, just enough to keep it interesting. I hope you'll try it and enjoy it as much as we do.

• Ready In: 15 mins
• Serves: 10

Ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup butter or 1⁄2 cup margarine, softened
• 1 1⁄2 cups granulated sugar
• 2  large eggs
• 2  cups  mashed bananas
• 1⁄4 cup light rum
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 3⁄4 cups cornmeal
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1⁄3 cup  chopped pecans
• 1⁄4 cup  firmly packed brown sugar
• 1⁄4 cup butter or 1⁄4 cup margarine

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Beat 1/2 cup butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well.
3. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
4. Stir in mashed bananas, rum and vanilla extract.
5. Combine 1 1/2 cups flour and next 4 ingredients; add to the butter mixture, mixing until blended. Pour into prepared tube pan; set aside.
6. Combine 1/2 cup flour and remaining ingredients;; sprinkle over batter, Bake for 55 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan and let cool completely on wire rack.