Delicious moist banana bread with tangy cream cheese and toasted pecans. Great breakfast bread of its own.
This weekend was a 3 day holiday weekend due to Good Friday and Easter Sunday and as the weather was great we had 3 days of fun. On Friday and Saturday we did shopping and also went to attend a Taiwanese festival, and Sunday as usual was cleaning and grocery day. How was your weekend? This weekend I also made this delicious Banana Pecan Cream Cheese bread with some ripe bananas and cream cheese.
At first I was planning to make carrot cupcakes, but my bananas were very ripe, and as usual hubby requested banana bread so I skipped the idea of carrot cakes with cream cheese frosting and made this banana bread.
Banana bread gets the warmest welcome than any other quick bread. Hubby loves to have them for his breakfast and the kids also enjoy eating them. So I am free to make banana bread at any time.
I tried banana bread with sour cream earlier which we liked a lot, so got the courage to try with cream cheese in banana bread.
Only difference I found is that baking with cream cheese is that it requires more time than the regular banana bread without any add on.
Normally banana bread will be ready in 60 minutes; this one took about 75 minutes to get completely cooked.
Banana is awesome fruit which can mingle with anything. Tangy cream cheese makes it moister and heavier.
Normally I make banana bread with whisk and spoon for this I used Kitchen Aid stand mixer, first added cream cheese, butter and sugar, then added egg and vanilla extract and then add flour mixture. And finally fold in mashed banana and chopped pecans (if you want you can roast them also) .Then bake it in a preheated oven of 350 °F for 75 minutes or until tooth picks comes out from the center. Check them after 60 minutes as every oven differs in temperature.
This is one of the moist and soft delicious banana bread and it is hard to stop with single slice. If you like banana bread, you will love them. I have few banana bread recipes in blog, but this one stands in my new favorite banana bread recipe.
Give it try you are going to love this one for sure.
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Banana Pecan Cream cheese Bread
Ingredients
- ¼ cup ½ stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 8 oz cream cheese I used Philadelphia original
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cups about 4 using medium bananas very ripe bananas, peeled, sliced and mashed
- 1 heaping cup chopped pecans
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare 9x5 inch loaf pan, grease with unsalted butter and lightly dust with flour.
- In a large mixing bowl, of kitchen aid stand, cream butter, cream cheese and sugar till light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time and vanilla and beat well.
- Sift all dry ingredients and add mix with wet ingredients in two batches. Fold in mashed banana. Then finally fold in chopped pecans into the mixture.
- Pour into greased and floured loaf pans, about ¾ full, and bake for 80 minutes or until the top is golden and a toothpick inserted comes out relatively clean. You want this bread to be moist, so don't over bake.
- Let cool for 10 to 15 minutes, then remove from pans and allow loaves to cool completely
Nutrition
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Reeni says
Love the sound of this banana bread with cream cheese! What a delicious idea! I bet it gives lots of flavor. Looks so tender and moist. Would love to try a slice. Or maybe two.
sona says
Lovely banana bread, looks so soft and moist.
techie2mom says
Yummy bread... would love to have it..
Sangeetha says
Wow! Love it !
julie says
looks delicious bread,loved it 🙂
Create With Joy says
Swathi,
I love trying different banana bread recipes and yours looks delicious!
Congratulations - you are one of our featured guests at Inspire Me Monday at Create With Joy this week! 🙂
Kumar's Kitchen says
this is indeed a zesty baked treat...with loads of all our favorite fruit,nut and cream cheese...this is going to be cleaned off as soon as it gets made at home,thanks ever so much for sharing such inspiring recipes 🙂
Anu'skitchendelights says
Looks delectable..combination of cream cheese sounds interesting. Will try it.
mjskit says
What a good looking banana bread! I love banana bread and you have created some beauties, including this one!
Maha says
Yummy n nice combo...
Bhawna says
looks like you made it perfectly...looks super..
Priya says
I love banana breads a lot ,but i feel a little mushy the next day .You store it in your fridge? .As you mentioned its the softest bread ,With pecans its a soft and nutty bread ...
bhawya says
Banana Pecan Cream cheese.. These combination making me to drool 🙂
Look moisty and tempting.
Joy @ Yesterfood says
Swathi, this is amazing- I can almost smell it. Banana bread is wonderful to begin with, and then you added my two favorites, cream cheese and pecans!! I am so glad you brought this to Treasure Box Tuesday- I have PINNED and tweeted! ♥
Lisa @ Flour Me With Love says
I love the addition of cream cheese...my favorite! This is being featured today, thanks for sharing at Mix it up Monday 🙂
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veenashankar says
delicious tempting bread
Cheryl says
Hi! I popped over from the In and Out of the Kitchen link party to check out your recipe because I love banana bread and had to check out this yummy sounding version. I'm gonna have to try it soon! I got on a blueberry banana bread kick for a long time and haven't made banana bread in awhile, but this might just have me making it again. I would love it if you would swing by my The Yuck Stops Here link party to share your awesome recipe as well! You can find us at http://mommasangelbaby.com and this week’s party will be open until Saturday evening at 8 pm ET. Next week we’ll open the party on Tuesday evening at 8pm ET. If you can’t make it this week, I hope to see you then! HUGS
Gayathri says
Yummy bread. Moist with nice texture.
Nalini Somayaji says
Love the banana bread ..nice clicks too
Nalini Somayaji says
Love the banana bread ..nice clicks too
shweta a says
delicious- the colour, the texture. the flavours:)
Linsy says
love to try bread with cream cheese. looks soft and yummy
Gloria says
Soft and delicious looking bread..hard to resist...
Sony's kitchen says
Delicious and creamy bread !!
Helen- Life in Random Bits says
Wow, this sounds delicious! I always have a bunch of bananas that need to be used and you really just cannot go wrong with cream cheese!