Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Banana Nut Bread Healthier Verison Recipes

BANANA PEANUT BUTTER BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease a 5x9 inch loaf pan.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs; beat well. Stir in peanut butter, bananas, flour and baking soda until blended. Fold in walnuts. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Remove to a wire rack to cool.

PEANUT BUTTER STREUSEL-TOPPED CREAM CHEESE BANANA-NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F and grease and flour 2 8x4 inch loaf pans.
• Make bread batter by beating butter and cream cheese at medium speed with electric mixer until creamy.
• Add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, beating until just blended.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in another bowl. Gradually add this to butter mixture, stirring just until blended.
• Stir in bananas, pecans, and vanilla. Pour batter into pans.
• Make streusel by combining the flour and brown sugar in a small bowl. Cut in the butter and peanut butter with a pastry blender or fork until the mixture resembles small peas.
• Sprinkle the mixture over the batter, and bake for 1 hour, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. If necessary, shield the top with foil for last 15 minutes to prevent browning.
• Cool bread in pans for 10 minutes, remove from pan, and allow to cool on a wire rack for another 30 minutes.

PEANUT BUTTER CREAM CHEESE BANANA NUT BREAD (HEALTHIER VERISON)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Place 3/4 cup pecans in a single layer on a baking sheet and bake 12-15 minutes or until toasted and fragrant, stirring after 6 minutes.
• Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy and light. Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
• Combine flours and next 4 ingredients; gradually add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture.
• Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in bananas, toasted pecans, and vanilla.
• Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured 8X4 inch pans. Combine topping ingredients and with a pastry blender or fork crush the topping until mixture resembles small peas. Lightly sprinkle mixture over batter in pans.
• Bake at 350°F for one hour or until a long wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and sides of bread pull away from pan, shielding with aluminum foil during last 15 minutes to prevent excessive browning, if necessary. Cool bread in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks. Let cool 30 minutes.