Banana Pear Bread With Dates

"This bread is the best banana bread I have ever made. I didn't have enough of the ingredients I needed for banana bread so I improvised and the outcome was wonderful! I have to post this one so I will remember how to make it again. Entire family loved it."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 10mins
Ingredients:
14
Serves:
24
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Grease 2 loaf pans.
  • In a large bowl cream together butter, sugar, Splenda, vanilla, orange extract, and eggs.
  • Put into your blender 2 peeled bananas and half the can of pears (not juice). Puree.
  • Stop blender and add cinnamon and enough pears to equal 2 cups of puree total. Blend again until all is smooth.
  • Add the flour, soda and salt to the bowl of creamed butter and sugar mixture.
  • Now add the fruit puree and the sour cream to the mixture and mix well.
  • Fold in chopped dates.
  • Scoop half the batter into each loaf pan and bake for about 1 hour.
  • After 1 hour test center of loaf with a toothpick, if it comes out clean your bread is done, if not bake another 10 minutes and try again.
  • Cool for at least 30 minutes before serving.

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Reviews

  1. This made for a lovely cake, I did a half batch and used dried nectarines in place of dates, lovely & moist & lasted well for a few days. Thanks for posting!
     
  2. My 1st attempt at this (a small loaf set of 8) didn't want to set up. The baby loaves just kept a soggy texture no matter how long I cooked them. I wasn't sure if it was the liners or just the mix so I did away with the liners & added maybe 1 cup of oatmeal to help the texture. This batch turned out nice after cooking about 35 mins. Then the next 2 batches I added a little more oats & som chocolate chips. Yumm! my family likes them too but they are to hand out to the neighbors so they can't have anymore, (only the squishy one's). Thanks for sharing. I like the idea of using my pears.
     
  3. Superb! I didn't use the Splenda...just used sugar instead. We loved it...it's much lighter than most fruit breads...I baked it for 70 minutes and it was perfect. Thanks very much!
     
  4. This was wonderful! When I was pureeing the bananas & pears, I threw in the dates, rather than chopping them separately, then gave it all a really good quiz to get the dates chopped up small. Rather than 2 loaves, I poured the whole thing into a tube pan & baked it for 1 hr & 10 min. It has great flavour & was very moist ... everybody had 2nds! Thanks for such a great recipe!
     
  5. Subbed applesauce for pears, figs for dates, and sugar for slenda. This was delicious! Will surely make again!
     
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  1. This made for a lovely cake, I did a half batch and used dried nectarines in place of dates, lovely & moist & lasted well for a few days. Thanks for posting!
     
  2. Subbed applesauce for pears, figs for dates, and sugar for slenda. This was delicious! Will surely make again!
     

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I am the mother of three (one grown, one in middle school and one in high school). I have grandchildren who we invite over regularly to spend the night. We have lots of fun and a very full house! I do all of the baking and my husband cooks all the dinners. He loves to BBQ and cook and he is GOOD at it! He is wonderful with the children and I appreciate him so! I enjoy gardening, crafts, sewing, and crocheting, pets, and all kinds of "kid fun". If I had a month off I would spend it somewhere on the coast with just my sweetie and a view of the sea. I would miss the kids terribly so I would have them visit us in the hotel (that of course has room service) on Thursdays,Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays for swimming, walks, beach-combing, dune climbing and dune buggy rides, movies, church, and the hottub!
 
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