White Chocolate Macadamia Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 1 cupgranulated sugar
• 0.3 cupbuttersoftened
• 1.7 cupsbananaripe mashed ( 3 bananas)
• 0.3 cupmilk2%
• 4 ouncescream cheeselow fat
• 2 largeeggs
• 2 cupsflour
• 1 teaspoonbaking soda
• 0.5 teaspoonkosher salt
• 0.8 cupmacadamia nutssalted chopped
• 0.8 cupchocolate chipswhite

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• whisk
• wire rack
• blender
• loaf pan
• hand mixer
• toothpicks

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the sugar and butter beating at medium speed until fluffy. On low-speed, add the banana, milk, cream cheese and eggs mixing until combined.
3. In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt. Keeping the mixer on low-speed and slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Beat just until blended.
4. Add the nuts and chocolate chips and stir briefly.
5. Pour the batter into a 95 inch metal loaf pan coated with cooking spray and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes on a wire rack.
6. Remove from pan and cool on rack.