strawberry cream cheese banana bread
Mmmmmm…. If you haven’t figured it out by now, my “secret ingredients” for amazing quick bread are cream cheese or vanilla pudding mix. Here’s another one to add to your list of favorites!
~ makes 2 loaves ~
preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
3/4 cup butter, softened to room temperature
8 oz. cream cheese, softened to room temperature
1 and 1/2 cups sugar, plus more for top
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 cup overly ripe mashed bananas (approximately 2 medium)
3 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 and 1/2 cups coarsely chopped, fresh strawberries
Grease 2 (8×5) loaf pans. Mix butter, cream cheese, and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla, and mashed bananas. Mix just until evenly combined.
In a separate bowl, combine: flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Add to wet ingredients and mix just until everything is evenly combined and moistened. Gently fold in strawberries.
Pour batter into loaf pans. Sprinkle each loaf with a little more sugar. Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes, or just until a wooden skewer inserted into the center of the loaves comes out with a few moist crumbs on it. Cool on racks, in pans, for 15 minutes before turning out onto racks to cool completely. Store whatever you don’t eat right away in the fridge.
Enjoy!
~Melissa
Hello-the amount of strawberries seems to be missing from the strawberry cream cheese banana bread recipe. Would you please let me know?
Thank you,
Margaret
Hi Margaret. 🙂 The recipe says 1 and 1/2 cups coarsely chopped strawberries. You may have missed it. Hope that helps!
This is the most amazing banana bread. Everyone loved it. The strawberries gave a good recipe a fantastic taste. I used frozen (thawed&drained) fresh strawberries that I had frozen during the summer months. This is definitely a keeper as far as recipes go. No more plain banana bread!
Smells amazing in oven,giving to my daughter’s for Valentine’s day💞
What a sweet gift. 🙂 Enjoy!
The bread is very good. The strawberries turned purple, your photo shows them bright red. Why is this?
Hmmm, not sure. They always stay red when I make it 🙂
Wondering if frozen strawberries could be used
I’ve never tried using frozen strawberries. I think they might add too much moisture to the bread. Hope that helps! 🙂
I made mine in mini loaves.. cooked in 30 mins. My son went nuts over them! lol YUMMY!
Hi Gwen!
Great idea 🙂 So happy your son loves the bread! Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. XO ~M
Can you use frozen strawberries when fruit is not in season?
Hi Donna 🙂
I’ve never tried using frozen strawberries in this bread. I think it might work, but I would add less because they will be significantly more watery than fresh strawberries. Hope this helps!
Hi! Can you substitute the cream cheese with Sour Cream or greek yogurt??
Is it regular sugar or confectionery sugar?
Everyone loves the bread I love try new recipe
Can it be made in a square pan instead?