Banana Bread with Cream Cheese

Banana Bread with Cream Cheese is moist, slightly tangy, and very rich—perfect for breakfast or dessert. 🍌🍞

Banana Bread with Cream Cheese

Ingredients

For the Banana Bread Batter

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 ripe bananas, mashed
• ½ cup sour cream (or yogurt)

For the Cream Cheese Filling

• 8 oz (225 g) cream cheese, softened
• ¼ cup sugar
• 1 egg
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan.
2. Mix dry ingredients
   • In a bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt.
3. Cream butter and sugar
   • Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Add eggs and flavor
   • Mix in eggs one at a time.
   • Add vanilla extract.
5. Add bananas and sour cream
   • Stir in mashed bananas and sour cream.
6. Combine mixtures
   • Gradually mix the dry ingredients into the banana mixture.
7. Prepare cream cheese filling
   • Beat cream cheese, sugar, egg, and vanilla until smooth.
8. Layer the batter
   • Pour half of the banana batter into the pan.
   • Spread the cream cheese filling on top.
   • Add the remaining banana batter.
9. Bake
   • Bake for 55–65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out mostly clean.
10. Cool

• Let it cool in the pan for 15 minutes, then transfer to a rack.

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Optional Add-Ins

• Chopped walnuts or pecans
• Chocolate chips
• Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top before baking

💡 Tip: The riper the bananas (with brown spots), the sweeter and more flavorful the bread will be.

If you’d like, I can also give you a bakery-style banana cream cheese bread that stays moist for 4–5 days.