Cranberry Orange Banana Cream Cheese Bread

Because sometimes 30 ingredients are necessary for me to be satisfied.

Adapted from this recipe. We had a bunch of really stale candied orange peels that needed to be used so I exchanged the grated orange peel for those. I also used brown sugar instead of white sugar and cut out about 1/4 cup.

Ingredients:
5 tbsp butter, softened
4 oz cream cheese (1/2 package), softened
3/4 - 1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 medium bananas, mashed
1/4 cup chopped candied orange peels or 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Combine cream cheese, sugar and butter and mix. Blend in bananas and egg.

Add remaining ingredients and mix until the dry ingredients are moistened.

At this point, you can either pour the batter into a greased and floured pan or put it in a bread machine. I have a bread machine and love it, so I used that. Bake at 350 degrees for at least an hour until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center.

This was sooooo good. I kind of love it when recipes come together based on "what the heck do we have in the house yeah let's use that" as a theory.

Spread with butter or cream cheese or just eat it as is.