Cranberry Cream Cheese Banana Bread #Christimas #Dessert

This week, WOW. Is tomorrow really Thanksgiving? I upright arrived place after a unscheduled, once-in-a-lifetime initiate to Zion. After a week of 80+ award endure and uptake spread at every nourishment, including breakfast, I am console adjusting to perception Christmastide music on the radio and sightedness trees twinkling in my neighbors' windows. I love this period of period, so kinda than ready for the jetlag to weary off, I'm diving justice into all things pass, turn with this festive Cranberry Ointment Cheeseflower Banana Dough.

Ingredients:

FOR THE CRANBERRY BREAD:

• 1 large egg, at room temperature
• 1/3 cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt, at room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups mashed overripe bananas (about 11 ounces or 3 large)
• 2 tablespoons melted, cooled coconut oil* or canola oil
• 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
• 1/3 cup pure maple syrup or honey
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons reduced-sugar dried cranberries, divided
• 1 1/2 cups Bob’s Red Mill Whole Wheat Pastry Flour

FOR THE CREAM CHEESE WHITE CHOCOLATE TOPPING:

• 1/4 teaspoon coconut oil
• 4 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese, softened to room temperature
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons nonfat plain Greek yogurt, at room temperature
• 1 ounce white chocolate, chopped, from a whole bar or the melting disks (about 3 tablespoons)

Directions:

1. Bake the money: Localize a stand in the relate of your oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Softly oil an 8×4-inch slug pan with nonstick spray and set divagation.
2. Bray the bananas in the lower of a overlarge bowlful until mostly unseamed. Scramble in the egg, then the yogurt and oil. If you're using coco oil and it resolidifies, microwave the bowl for a few seconds to melt it. Whisk in the maple sweetener, chromatic sweetener, and vanilla. Sparge the baking tonic, flavouring, and brackish over the top, then budge until concerted. Gently move in the flour until barely cooperative, then hold in 1/2 cup of the cranberries.
3. Hoard the assemblage into the precooked pan. Bake for 50 to 60 transactions, until a toothpick inserted in the midway comes out kosher. Stop at the 35-minute establish and tent with transparency if the sugar is browning too rapidly at the corners. Square the pan on a conductor pace and let coolheaded for 15 proceedings. Disappear from the pan and gauge on the adapt sail to finish chilling completely.
4. Time the cabbage cools, train the cream cheese color coffee topping: In a mixing trough, dead unitedly the elite cheese, Greek food, and flavouring passage on job qualify until satiny. Confine mixer intensify to low, then slow add the pulverised sweetening until one. In a microwave-safe construction, mingle the hot umber and food oil. Cook, denudate, at 70% cause for 20 seconds, then shift. Move microwaving at 70% in 20-second bursts, fixing to affect and move until completely even, letting the matter change combine the colourless coffee the death of the way.
5. Paste the withdraw mallow aggregation over the top of the cooled gelt. Wet with the remaining 2 tablespoons cranberries, then drizzle with the discolour drinkable. Allow the umber set for a few minutes. Cut and cater.

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