Peach Banana Bread

There really isn’t a more comforting breakfast snack than eating a nice warm piece of banana bread!

Now I love banana bread but I also love me some peaches!

Take banana bread and add peaches to it and you have a big hot loaf of Peach Banana Bread!

For this bread I love to use canned peaches.

You could use fresh peaches if you prefer but I normally whip this bread up whenever I have super ripe bananas and often it’s not peach season so canned peaches are perfect!

Don’t forget that to make the best banana bread you want super, super, super ripe bananas!

I always pick up organic bananas when I go grocery shopping.

If I am not making bread, I am freezing bananas to make smoothies.

Now for the bread it’s super simple and it’s the perfect easy snack to get the kids involved in making.

First, cream butter and sugar until nice and fluffy.

While you’re creaming the butter and sugar you can let the kids get busy by mashing up the bananas.

Make sure you leave a little chunk in the bananas because we want that texture in the finished product.

Next, sift your dry ingredients together and set them aside.

Add eggs, sour cream, vanilla, and chunky bananas to the cream/butter mixture.

Mix it up but don’t over mix.

Lastly, add the dry ingredients to the batter reserving about 3 tablespoons of dry ingredients to mix with the diced peaches.

Mix the drained diced peaches with the dry flour mixture and fold into the batter.

Bake and make your cream cheese glaze while the bread is baking.

Allow the bread to cool and drizzle with glaze and top with even more peaches.

Serve with extra glaze on the side.

Peach Banana Bread with Cream Cheese Glaze
Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

Servings: 1 9X5X3 loaf

Ingredients

3 overripe bananas
1 cup diced peaches, drained if using canned
1 cup pecans, diced (optional)
1 stick butter, room temperature
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 tablespoons sour cream
2 cups flour
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
For the Cream Cheese Glaze:
1 stick of butter, unsalted, room temperature
8oz. Cream Cheese, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups confectioners sugar
peach juice to thin
extra peaches to top

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
In a mixer add butter and sugar and beat well until light and fluffy, add mashed bananas and mix well until semi chunky, add eggs, vanilla and sour cream, mix well.
In another bowl sift, flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Reserve 3 tablespoons of dry ingredients.
Pour into wet ingredients, mix slightly, do not over mix.
Toss peaches with reserved dry mixture, mix well and fold into batter.
Add pecans if using and fold into batter mixing the batter until all flour has been mixed well.
Scoop mixture into a greased and floured 9X5X3 loaf pan bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes at 325 degrees or until a toothpick comes out clean in the center.
Allow bread to cool slightly and top with cream cheese glaze and extra diced peaches.
Serve with extra glaze if desired.

For the Cream Cheese Glaze:
To prepare the glaze, in a mixer, mix butter and cream cheese for about 2 minutes, add vanilla and sugar, mix well and set aside.
Use peach juice to thin.