Cookies and Cream Banana Bread - Oh Yes I Did!

 A girl my husband works with asked him if I'd be able to make a cookies n' cream banana bread. So, as always, I turned to Pinterest to see what I could find. I came across a recipe from allthecooks.com and decided to give it a try.

I ended up tweaking it a bit so that it packed a bit more cookie punch. Let me tell you...it's good. As you can see, my bread came out a little short and looks like a cake, but it's banana bread. I think the next time around I'm going to use my smaller pans and make the bread portion a lot thicker.

Enough talking about it, let's get to the recipe! Here you go:

Cookies and Cream Banana Bread
Makes 2 loaves

• 4 medium · slightly overripe bananas - not too ripe or the bread will be runny. You can add more flour if it seems a bit too runny, but it's easier to use the right kind of bananas. 
• ¾ cup · butter (room temp)
• 1 cup · sugar
• 2 · eggs
• 1 teaspoon · vanilla extract
• 1 ½ teaspoon · baking soda
• ¼ teaspoon · salt
• ½ teaspoon · ground cinnamon
• 1 cup · crushed Oreos - Or more if you like lots o' Oreos ;)
• 1 1/4 cup · all purpose flour  

Delicious Drizzle and Topping:

• 1 cup · powdered sugar
• 5 · -6 tbl. heavy whipping cream 
• 1/2 cup crushed Oreo

Preheat oven to 350. In a medium/large mixing bowl cream together sugar and butter.  Once these two are mixed thoroughly add vanilla, eggs, and bananas and mix on medium/high speed until blended.  In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Mix well.  Combine dry and wet ingredients together, mixing well. Add crushed Oreos to batter.


Grease two 8x5 bread pans. Pour half of mixture into each pan. Crush a few more Oreos and sprinkle on top of each loaf before cooking. Press gently on the crushed cookies so it sticks to your batter.(You can use different sizes of pans, you'll just have to adjust your baking time. Just keep an eye on them and pull them when a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.)


Bake for 35-45 minutes depending on how hot your oven gets. (I have an oven thermometer in mine so I know exactly what temp the inside of my oven is. Mine runs ten to fifteen degrees lower than the temp I set it at, so I have to compensate by adding a little more heat. You can get a thermometer that hangs inside your oven on Amazon for real cheap.)

You'll know your bread is done when the top is browned and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let cool in pans for fifteen minutes then remove from pans and place on cooling rack. Let cool completely.

Once the bread is cooled prepare the drizzle topping. More cream for a runnier drizzle and less cream for a thicker drizzle. It's your choice. Mix the cream and powdered sugar together and drizzle some on each loaf. Sprinkle a bit more crushed Oreo on top of the drizzle and then drizzle some more. (Seriously, how many times can I say drizzle?)

You're all done. Slice a piece off and enjoy.
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Well, that's it. I know it's not the healthiest bread on Earth. I wasn't going for healthy (hey, it has banana in it though). You'll have to let me know if you have another banana bread recipe you think I'd like. I'd love to try it.

Well, that's it for now. I hope you have a great day and a good time making this bread. As always, thanks for reading.

Take care,
NB