PUMPKIN BANANA BARS RECIPES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar in mixing bowl.
• Beat in eggs one at a time until smooth.
• Stir in pumpkin and banana.
• In a second bowl, combine remaining ingredients, reserving 1/2 cup toated pine nuts.
• Stir to mix, add to wet ingredients, mix together only until moistened.
• Sprinkle bottom of a greased 10 inch tube pan with remaining toasted pine nuts.
• Pour batter into tube pan.
• Bake in 350f degree oven for 1 hour or until tester inserted in middle comes out clean.
• Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack and glaze.
• Glaze: Combine brown sugar, butter, spices and cream in a small saucepan.
• Bring to boil and simmer for 3 minutes.
• Spoon over warm cake, sprinkle with crushed pine nuts.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
• In a large bowl, stir together the mashed banana, eggs, vanilla, oil, pumpkin, and sugars.
• Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pumpkin pie spice and cinnamon. Stir into the banana mixture until just combined.
• In a medium bowl, beat the ingredients for the cream cheese filling until smooth.
• Divide half of the batter between the 2 prepared pans. Spoon equal amounts of the cream cheese filling down the center of each loaf. Top with the remaining batter.
• Bake for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean. Cool loaf in the pan for 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, position a cooling rack over wax paper. Whisk together the powdered sugar, vanilla and 1-2 tablespoons of milk. Turn the loaves onto the cooling rack and drizzle with the glaze. Sprinkle with the chopped pecans and cool completely before slicing and serving.