my kitchen: EASY BANANA BREAD WITH CREAM CHEESE

Okay how I did I already eat three of these? They are so good out of oven. They were fluffy, moist and the top was caramelized with the sugary edges. I ended up using the kitchens aid to mash the bananas first, then add the rest of the top half of ingredients, then the dry with the flour last.

I might also add a bit of lemon juice and salt to the cream cheese next time, or less flour. Also, would this recipe work with chocolate chips?! 

When I have brown bananas in the house, I get the urge to make banana bread!! (Or freeze to make smoothies but I prefer banana bread) 

 

EASY BANANA BREAD WITH CREAM CHEESE

Original recipe here 

Banana Bread:

• ½ cup unsalted butter, melted

• ½ cup light brown sugar

• 1 large egg

• ¼ cup Greek yogurt (original recipe uses sour cream)

• ¼ cup white sugar

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 2 ripe bananas (I used 3)

• 1 cup all-purpose flour

• ½ teaspoon baking soda

• ½ teaspoon baking powder

• ½ teaspoon salt

  ½ teaspoon cinnamon (added)

Cream Cheese Filling:

• 1 (4 ounce) package cream cheese, softened

• 1 large egg

• ¼ cup white sugar

• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

  1 teaspoon vanilla (added)

  
  

  

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). You can use a loaf pan but I used muffin pans- it makes 12 large muffins. You can also wait to preheat after you’ve made the banana bread part, before you make the cream cheese. 

  1. 2. Make banana bread: mash bananas in mixer or with fork. Combine melted butter, brown sugar, egg, sour cream, white sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl; mix until smooth. 

     3. Whisk in baking soda, baking powder, salt and flour until just combined.

     4. Make cream cheese filling: mix together cream cheese, egg, white sugar, and flour in a medium bowl until smooth.

  2.  5. Pour 1/2 of the banana batter into each muffin liner. Then layer with spoonful of cream cheese filling. Pour remaining banana batter on top. (Don’t worry if you have cream cheese peeking out. I had almost 1 with mostly cream cheese since I put too much banana batter in the first half.)

  4. 6. Bake in the preheated oven about 30 minutes for muffins, 50 minutes for loaf, until top is firm and bounces back and toothpick in center is clean. Enjoy while warm!