Description
The sweetness of ripe bananas perfectly complements the tanginess of cream cheese, creating a bread that’s simply irresistible.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 3 mashed ripe bananas (spotted and brown bananas are the best)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 Tablespoons sour cream
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
Cream Cheese Center:
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 Tablespoon flour
Cinnamon Sugar Topping (to sprinkle on the top, if desired)
- 2 Tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Cream 1 cup sugar, with the butter and the egg in the bowl of a stand mixer.
- In a separate small bowl, stir the baking soda into the sour cream until dissolved.
- Then add the baking soda/ sour cream, the salt and the mashed bananas to the creamed mixture.
- Stir in 2 cups of flour and mix until just mixed (be careful not to overmix).
- Divide 1/2 the mixture into 2 greased and floured loaf pans.
- Combine the cream cheese, sugar, egg and 1 Tablespoon of flour and mix well.
- Spread equal amounts of the cream cheese mixture over the batter in each loaf pan.
- Now layer the remaining batter equally over the cream cheese mixture.
- Spinkle with cinnamon sugar. This creates a wonderful crunchy top!
- Bake 350 for 50 minutes to 1 hour, depending on your oven. Test for doneness.
- Cool before slicing for a pretty presentation…but I don’t blame you if you cant wait that long:)