Coconut Cream Banana Nut Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, softened
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs, slightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup mashed banana
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or 1/2 cup pecans
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup shredded coconut

Recipe

• 1 thoroughly grease the bottoms and sides of 2 loaf pans; set aside.
• 2 combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; set aside.
• 3 beat butter on high speed for about 30 seconds.
• 4 add 1/2 cup brown sugar, beaten eggs and vanilla; beat until well mixed.
• 5 add flour mixture and banana alternately to beaten mixture; beating on low after each addition.
• 6 stir in nuts.
• 7 in a separate bowl, beat cream cheese, 1/4 cup brown sugar and the 1 egg until smooth.
• 8 stir in coconut.
• 9 pour 1/4 of the banana batter into each pan.
• 10 spoon 1/4 of the cream cheese mixture over each loaf.
• 11 marble each by using a spatula to cut cream cheese into the banana batter.
• 12 repeat the 2 layers as above but do not marble them.
• 13 bake in a 350°f oven for about 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• 14 cool in pans for 10 minutes.
• 15 remove loaves from pans and cool completely.