Mom's Banana Coffee Cake

My mom has this coffee cake waiting everytime I visit her Oregon.
Breakfast is always ready to be served when I walk down the stairs of
her lovely home. I know that this coffee cake will accompany whatever
other delectable breakfast treats she has prepared.

Adapted from Carol Steel's Aravaipa Farms Morning Banana Cake

* 2 1/2 cups flour 
* 1 cup pecans, slightly toasted 
* 1 cup dried cranberries, or dried strawberries
* 1 teas baking powder
* 1 teasbaking soda 
* 1 teas salt
* 2 1/2 cups sugar 
* 1 cup mashed ripe banana
* 2 teas vanilla 
* 2 large eggs 
* 1 cup melted butter (salted)
* 1 cupbuttermilk

Mix the flour, pecans, cranberries,baking powder, baking soda, and salt
in a bowl.

In a separate large bowl mix the sugar, banana, vanilla, and eggs until
blended.

Add the butter and the buttermilk. Mix this into the egg mixture. Add
the flour mixture and fold together until incorporated.

Butter and flour a nonstick decorative tube pan.

Bake for approximately 1 hour at 350F or until a skewer inserted into
the middle of the cake comes out clean.

Cool the cake then release the cake out of the pan and serve.