Maria Crumb’s Cheesecake Banana Bread Recipe
This recipe is a melt-in-your-mouth combo of
creamy vanilla cheesecake and the moistest banana
bread.
Ingredients
Batter:
- 4 Overripe Bananas
- 3 Eggs
- ½ Cup Vegetable Oil or Melted Butter
- ½ Cup Granulated Sugar
- ½ Cup Brown Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 Tbsp Cinnamon
- 1 ½ Cups All Purpose Flour
- ½ Tsp Salt
- 1 Tsp Baking Powder
- 1 Tsp Baking Soda
Cheesecake Filling:
- 1 Block of Cream Cheese
- ½ Cup Granulated Sugar
- ¼ Cup All Purpose Flour
- 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
Crumble Topping:
- ½ Cup Oats
- ¼ Cup All Purpose Flour
- ⅛ Cup Brown Sugar
- ⅛ Cup Granulated Sugar
- ½ Tbsp Cinnamon
Tools
Large, medium, and small mixing bowls.
Measuring cups and spoons.
Whisk
2 serving spoons
Bundt pan
muffin tin
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grease two desired cake pans (ex. bundt, loaf, muffin).
- Start making the batter in a large mixing bowl, by mixing oil and sugars.
- Next whisk in eggs.
- After that, add bananas directly to the mixture, and smash them with the whisk until you have a consistency similar to baby food.
- Add your vanilla and cinnamon.
- Then, sift flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda directly into a bowl and mix.
- Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, start making the cheesecake filling.
- Mix softened cream cheese, sugar, flour, and vanilla.
- Set bowl aside.
- In a small bowl make crumble topping.
- Mix oats, flour, sugars, and cinnamon.
- Take greased pans and sprinkle the desired amount of crumble topping to the bottom of the pan (will have some leftover).
- Then, fill your pan a third of the way with batter.
- With a spoon, scoop half of your cheesecake filling and spread it over the batter to look like a stripe through the center. The other half of the filling is for the other pan.
- Next, add just enough batter to cover the cheesecake filling as to not overfill.
- If you want, more crumble can be sprinkled over the top of the batter as well.
- Before placing the pans in the oven, cover with tin foil (unless it’s a muffin tin).
- Bake for 15 minutes, remove foil, then bake for another 10 (or until the toothpick comes out clean). Muffin tin will only take 10-15 minutes for total bake time.
- Serve hot or cool.
Featured in season 2, episode 3 of the Great Minnesota Recipe.
