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.