Banana Bread
1 8-oz package cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
¼ cup margarine
3 small ripe bananas, mashed
2 eggs
2 ¼ cups flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 cup chopped pecans
Combine cream cheese, sugar and margarine, mixing until well blended. Blend in banana and eggs. Add combined remaining ingredients, mixing just until moistened. Pour into greased and floured 9x5-in. glass loaf pan. Bake at 325ยบ, 1 hour and 15 minutes or until wooden pick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool about 5 minutes then remove from pan.
I had a warmed piece for my breakfast this morning along with a mug of tea. Yum! Betty joined me with sip from the new water bowl I got this week at Wal-Mart.
9 comments:
And me with some very ripe bananas...thanks!
Mmmmmm. Banana bread.
LOVE Banana bread Sis!!! Wish I had some with my newly-made veggie-beef soup!!! YUM!
Love Betty's bowl!!
I have never made banana bread w/ cream cheese before, but I have to tell you, Kelly, the recipe is a keeper. Thank you.
Sounds like a good Banana Bread recipe, Kelly, but you left out the main 'secret' ingredient: the buttermilk!!! Just kidding---but that is my secret ingredient. Is it frigid in your part of the woods, too? HUGS!
Glad you liked it, Debby! It was the cream cheese that attracted me to it in the first place.
Marion, my usual recipe does use buttermilk. I didn't have any and didn't want to make a trip into town so I searched for a recipe that didn't require any.
POLKA DOTS!
You can 'make' your own buttermilk by putting a tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar to the amount of milk you need for your recipe. I do this all the time. Let the milk curdle (almost immediately) and then add it to your recipe in place of the buttermilk.
I've heard that before, but didn't know if it really worked (and honestly didn't think of it at the time), especially with skim or soy milk. I'll try to remember it for future reference.
But hey, if I'd done that I wouldn't have found this yummy recipe!
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