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Cream Cheese-Filled Banana Bread

🍌🍞🎉 This is the BEST homemade banana bread recipe! This cream cheese banana bread tastes like it has cheesecake baked in! Soft, fluffy and tastes ahhhh-mazing and it'll be your new FAVORITE banana bread recipe! A total winner that will impress your friends and family!

Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Cooling Time
30 mins
Total Time
1 hr 30 mins
Servings: 12
Calories: 261 kcal
Course: Breakfast , Bread
Cuisine: American

Ingredients

Bread
  • 1 large egg
  • ½ cup light brown sugar packed
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup liquid-state coconut oil canola or vegetable may be substituted
  • ¼ cup cup sour cream lite is okay Greek yogurt may be substituted
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 cup mashed ripe bananas about 2 large bananas
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • pinch salt optional
Cream Cheese Filling
  • 1 large egg
  • 4 ounces brick-style cream cheese softened lite is okay
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

Instructions

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  1. Preheat oven to 350F. Spray one 9×5-inch loaf pan with floured cooking spray, or grease and flour the pan; set aside.
  2. Make the Banana Bread
  3. In a large bowl, add the egg, sugars, coconut oil, sour cream, vanilla, and whisk to combine.
  4. Add the bananas and stir to incorporate.
  5. Add 1 cup flour, baking powder, baking soda, optional salt, and fold with spatula or stir gently with a spoon until just combined; don’t overmix; set aside.
  6. Turn about two-thirds of the batter out into the prepared pan, smoothing the top lightly with a spatula and pushing it into corners and sides as necessary; set aside.
  7. Make the Cream Cheese Filling
  8. In a large bowl, add all ingredients and whisk to combine. Alternatively, mix with a hand mixer.
  9. Evenly pour filling mixture over the bread, smoothing the top lightly with a spatula and pushing it into corners and sides as necessary.
  10. Top with remaining batter, smoothing the top very lightly with a spatula as to not disturb cream cheese layer and pushing batter into corners and sides as necessary.
  11. Bake for about 48 to 50 minutes or until the top is domed, golden, and the center is set, and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter. Note this is tricky because the cream cheese never gets totally solid so the toothpick test isn’t the most accurate.*
  12. Allow bread to cool in pan for about 15 minutes before turning out on a wire rack to cool completely before slicing and serving.

Notes

  • *Tip: Tent the pan with a sheet of foil draped over it at the 30 minute-mark if you feel the tops and sides will become too browned before center cooks through. Baking times will vary based on moisture content of bananas, cream cheese, climate, and oven variances. Bake until done; watch your bread, not the clock.
  • Optionally, serve bread with Honey Butter, Cinnamon-Sugar Butter, Blueberry Butter, Strawberry Butter, or Vanilla Browned Butter Glaze.
  • Storage: Bread will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 6 months.

Nutrition Information

Serving 1 Calories 261kcal (13%) Carbohydrates 36g (12%) Protein 4g (8%) Fat 12g (18%) Saturated Fat 8g (40%) Polyunsaturated Fat 3g Cholesterol 52mg (17%) Sodium 155mg (6%) Fiber 1g (4%) Sugar 22g (44%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 12Serving

Amount Per Serving

Calories 261

% Daily Value*

Serving 1
Calories 261kcal 13%
Carbohydrates 36g 12%
Protein 4g 8%
Fat 12g 18%
Saturated Fat 8g 40%
Polyunsaturated Fat 3g 18%
Cholesterol 52mg 17%
Sodium 155mg 6%
Fiber 1g 4%
Sugar 22g 44%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.