Cream Cheese Banana Nut Bread

Ingredients
Bread:
1 c. mashed bananas [usually 2-3 bananas]
½ c. oil
1 ½ c. granulated sugar
¼ c. buttermilk [or ¼ t. lemon juice in ¼ c. milk]
1 t. vanilla
1 t. banana flavoring
3 eggs
1 ½ c. all-purpose flour
1 t. baking soda
½ t. salt
1 c. chopped nuts

Cream Cheese Filling:
2 large eggs
1 t. vanilla
8 oz. cream cheese , softened
½ c. granulated sugar
6 T. all-purpose flour

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Place bananas on foil covered cookie sheet and bake until they’re black, about 25 minutes. Cool, cut open and squeeze bananas into a bowl; add the liquid from the cookie sheet. Mash the bananas. Often, two bananas aren't quite enough and three bananas is a bit more than a cup. I add them anyway. A little extra mashed banana makes it better.  

Combine filling ingredients and set aside.

Increase oven temperature to 350 degrees. Grease or spray two 9" X 5" loaf pans and dust with granulated sugar. 

Combine the bananas, oil, sugar and buttermilk in a large mixing bowl, and mix thoroughly.  Add the vanilla and banana flavoring. Sift dry ingredients; add to wet ingredients, and mix just until blended. Add nuts. Mix just until the nuts are incorporated. Add ¾ of the batter to the two pans. Gently spoon cream cheese filling over the batter. Then gently spoon the rest of the batter over the cream cheese filling

Bake at 350 degrees F for 55-60 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean. 

Cool for 10-15 minutes, then run a knife around the edges of the pans and turn the bread out onto wire racks to cool completely.