Easy Banana Bread Recipe

Banana bread is a delicious sweet, cake-like bread which contains mashed bananas. Banana bread is a quick bread which typically uses baking soda as the leavening agent instead of yeast. Rather than dough, the bread is baked from thick batter, which does not require kneading. Banana bread is usually baked in a rectangular loaf pan.

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Banana Bread With Pecans, Brown Sugar And Cinnamon

Ingredients -

1/2 cup Margarine, softened
1 (8 ounces) package Cream Cheese, softened
1 1/4 cups White Sugar
2 Eggs
1 cup mashed Bananas
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2 1/4 cups All-Purpose Flour
1 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
3/4 cup chopped Pecans
2 tablespoons Brown Sugar
2 teaspoons Ground Cinnamon

Preparation:

Cream the butter or margarine and cream cheese together. Gradually add the white sugar, and continue beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the mashed bananas and vanilla. Add flour, baking powder, and soda; mix until batter is just moist.

In a small bowl, mix together chopped pecans, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, and cinnamon.
Divide 1/2 batter into two greased and floured 8x4 inch loaf pans. Sprinkle pecan mixture over batter in pans, and top with remaining batter.

Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

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