Chocolate Cream Cheese Banana Bread

This easy chocolate cream cheese banana bread - with its swirls of cream cheese - is the perfect excuse to have chocolate for breakfast.

Ingredients

Bread: 
1 cup flour
½ cup sugar
¼ cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 egg
3 ripe bananas, mashed 
¼ cup oil
1 teaspoon vanilla

Filling: 
4 oz cream cheese, softened 
1 egg
¼ cup brown sugar
½ cup flour

Heat oven to 350 degrees. 

Combine cream cheese, 1 egg, ½ cup flour, and brown sugar in a small bowl. The batter will be thin. Set aside. 

In a large bowl, combine 1 egg, mashed bananas, oil and vanilla. 

In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. 

Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, stirring until just combined. 

Pour batter into a greased loaf pan. The batter will be very thick.

Spoon cream cheese mixture on top of the batter. 

Using a butter knife or small spatula, make a few big swirls in the bread to combine the cream cheese mixture with the batter. Don’t over swirl or the cream cheese will disappear into the batter. 

Bake for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. 

Enjoy!

Tips on Chocolate Cream Cheese Banana Bread

• Low fat cream cheese works well in this recipe.
• The riper your bananas, the sweeter the bread will be.
• Chocolate cream cheese banana bread freezes great! You can slice it before freezing or freeze the full loaf. Thaw it overnight in the refrigerator.

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