Cream Cheese Banana Bread
Delicious Cream Cheese Banana Bread made with ripe bananas and a creamy filling.
Equipment
- 4x8-inch loaf pan
- mixing bowl
- hand mixer
Ingredients
For the banana bread
- 2 to 3 pieces very ripe bananas, peeled about 1 ¼ to 1 ½ cups mashed
- ⅓ cup melted butter unsalted or salted
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- a pinch salt
- ¾ cup sugar ½ cup if less sweet, 1 cup if sweeter
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
For the cream cheese filling
- 8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons flour
Instructions
Method
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and grease a 4x8-inch loaf pan.
- In a mixing bowl, mash the ripe bananas with a fork until completely smooth. Stir the melted butter into the mashed bananas.
- Mix in the baking soda and salt. Stir in the sugar, beaten egg, and vanilla extract. Mix in the flour.
- In another bowl, beat together all the ingredients for the cream cheese filling with a hand mixer or in a stand mixer.
- Pour half of the banana bread batter in the loaf pan. Top the batter with half of the cream cheese filling, one dollop at a time. Top with remaining batter. Top with the remaining cream cheese filling one dollop at a time.
- Insert a butter knife about halfway into the batter and run through the batter vertically and horizontally to swirl the cream cheese into the banana bread batter.
- Bake for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean.
Nutrition
Serving: 1sliceCalories: 200kcalCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 3gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 5gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 50mgSodium: 150mgPotassium: 180mgFiber: 1gSugar: 12gVitamin A: 300IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 25mgIron: 1mg
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