Island Style Banana Bread

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

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 cup butter, softened (not margarine)
• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 2 slightly beaten eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 ripe mashed bananas
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup flaked coconut

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 grease the bottom and half way up the sides of 2 loaf pans; set aside.
• 3 combine the next 5 ingredients; set aside.
• 4 in a large mixing bowl beat butter with mixer on high speed for 30 seconds.
• 5 add 1/2 cup of the brown sugar, the 2 eggs and the vanilla; beat until well combined.
• 6 add dry mixture and mashed bananas alternately to beaten mixture, beating on low speed after each addition, until well combined.
• 7 stir in pecans.
• 8 in a medium bowl beat together the cream cheese, the 1 egg and remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar on medium speed until almot smooth.
• 9 stir in coconut.
• 10 pour 1/4 of the banana mixture into each loaf pan.
• 11 spoon 1/4th of the cream cheese mixture over each banana mixture.
• 12 using a spatula, cut through the batter to marble.
• 13 repeat the 2 layers as above but don't marble this time.
• 14 bake in preheated oven for about 50 mins or until they test done.
• 15 cool in pans on wire rack for 10 minutes.
• 16 remove from pans and cool completely.