Description
I have been using this recipe for a few years now, and it remains my family’s favorite for banana bread! The combination of bananas and cream cheese make this a very moist bread.
Ingredients
- ½ cup margarine, softened
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 ¼ cups white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup mashed bananas
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup chopped pecans
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 8×4-inch loaf pans.
- Cream the margarine and cream cheese together. Gradually add the white sugar
- and continue beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time
- beating well after each addition. Stir in the mashed bananas and vanilla. Add flour
- baking powder
- and baking soda; mix until batter is just moist.
- In a small bowl
- mix together chopped pecans
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- and cinnamon.
- Divide half the batter between the two prepared loaf pans. Sprinkle pecan mixture over the batter in the pans
- and top with remaining batter.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of each loaf comes out clean
- about 45 minutes.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
Servings: 16