Ooo yes—elite banana bread upgrade 🍌🧀
Here’s a cream cheese stuffed banana bread that’s moist, cozy, and just a little decadent.
Cream Cheese Stuffed Banana Bread
🥄 Ingredients
Banana Bread
- 2–3 very ripe bananas, mashed
- ½ cup melted butter (or oil)
- ¾ cup sugar (mix white + brown if you want extra depth)
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- Optional but encouraged: ½ tsp cinnamon
Cream Cheese Filling
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
👩🍳 Instructions
- Prep
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C)
- Grease or line a loaf pan
- Make the banana batter
- Mix mashed bananas + melted butter
- Stir in sugar, egg, and vanilla
- Add baking soda, salt, cinnamon
- Gently fold in flour (don’t overmix!)
- Make the cream cheese layer
- Beat cream cheese until smooth
- Add sugar, egg, and vanilla
- Mix until creamy and lump-free
- Assemble
- Pour ½ of the banana batter into the pan
- Add all the cream cheese mixture, spread evenly
- Top with remaining banana batter
- Optional: swirl gently with a knife
- Bake
- 50–60 minutes
- Tent with foil if the top browns too fast
- Toothpick should come out mostly clean (cream cheese may look soft—that’s normal)
- Cool (important!)
- Let cool at least 30 minutes before slicing so the layers set
🔥 Optional Glow-Ups
- Chocolate chips in the banana batter
- Chopped walnuts or pecans
- A cinnamon-sugar sprinkle on top
- Swap vanilla in the filling for a little lemon zest 👀
If you want, I can give you:
- A one-bowl lazy version
- Muffins instead of a loaf
- Or a healthier / protein-boosted version
Just say the word 😄
