I’ve spent years experimenting with marinades. This dish is a combination of work from a few friends and a few cookbook recipes.
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 loaf |
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup white sugar
- ½ cup lowfat cream cheese
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup mashed bananas
- ¼ cup brewed chai tea
Instructions
- In a medium bowl mix together flour, baking powder, and salt.
- In a separate bowl mix sugar, cream cheese, and eggs until light and fluffy. Mix mashed bananas and Chai into cream cheese mixture. Add flour mixture and mix until smooth.
- Pour mixture into a greased 9×5 inch loaf pan.
- Bake in a preheated 350 degree F(175 degrees C) oven for 60 minutes. Cool on rack. Remove from pan after 10 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 164 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 31 g |
| Cholesterol | 37 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 263 mg |
| Sugars | 14 g |
| Fat | 3 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Cooked faster than expected. Delicious! Served iced with chocolate chai buttercream frosting.
It tastes good, but I don’t taste the chai. Next time I will add my own spices instead of the tea.
I have had this recipe in my recipe box for years now. Sometimes you want something a bit different. We all love it. I don’t think it will be deleted for my box. It’s nice and we loved it
This is my go to banana bread. Everyone loves it!
This has been a staple in my recipe box for years. The cream cheese gives such a different texture. I do like to add some extra cardamon and cinnamon.
This seemed like a lot of effort for what you got. Don’t get me wrong it tasted fine, but it would have been much easier just to toss in some spices (allspice, cinnamon, cadamom, ginger ect.) insteading of messing around with chai tea.
My first banana bread. I loved it. Very moist. I didn’t measure the banana, I just smashed up 2 and added it to the batter. I covered the entire loaf with foil after 30 mins so it didn’t get to dark. I can’t really say I can taste the chai. I added 3 chai teabags to 1/3c hot water and let steep for an hour. Next time I will figure out a way to add a more concentrated chai.
Underwhelmed…the flavor was kind of weak.
I used butter instead of cream cheese due to not having cream cheese in my fridge at the time. I also used vanilla chia tea. I baked the bread in little star molds. This recipe is top notch! I already have requests from friends and family to make these again! Everyone loves them.
very good bread but the chai doesn’t show up real well. I tripled the recipe to make more and it worked just fine. I also increased the amount of chai tea and banana which helped some. Over all a really good,easy recipe.
I made a few alterations as well… rather than the white sugar I used Organic Evaporated Cane Sugar, used 1/2 C. of pre-brewed Chai Green( used 2 bags in about 3/4 cup and threw away the rest!). Also, used tofutti cream cheese substitute. I added 1tsp of cinnamon and 1tsp of vanilla, and 1/2 cup of toasted pecans! YUM!!!
Made this for a function that I had to cater for at my University. This bread was a hit. A very unique flavor enjoyed by all!!!! A definite keeper for ones recipe box!
My first loaf was not as moist as i would have liked, but still delicious! I also wanted to taste more chai, so I read through the reviews and added 1/2 cup of chai to the mix instead of the 1/4. I think it will turn out great, I plane to take it to work and share/ get opinions. 🙂
loved it! What a fantastic and fantastically easy recipe 🙂
I found that the tin foil loaf pans had to have half the recipe in each pan. I ended up doubling the recipe and making 3 loaf pan (store didn’t have any true loaf pans). I also used liquid chai tea, but opened 2 tea packets and put the spices right into the mixture. Not too shabby
I LOVED this bread. It was easy to make, had a fantastic chewy texture with a nice crisp top crust, and had a beautiful pound cake look to the slices. The chai perfectly and lightly spiced the bread and paired well with the slight cream cheese flavor. Yum!
I don’t know if I did something wrong, but I followed the instructions to a “t” (aside from adding a little more chai, per suggestions) and this wasn’t good. You can barely taste the banana if you only use 3/4 cup, so I’d use more if I made this again. Like EVERYONE ELSE said, you cannot taste the chai. Period. I added 1/2 cup of that and there isn’t even a hint of chai in this bread. It’s very dense and heavy with little white spots of cream cheese, which really just made it heavier. I won’t be making this again.
delicious and so gorgeous! I brewed the chai super strong and the flavor was still weak, but what I did taste was an interesting and welcome departure from the normal banana bread flavaflavs. I’m going to give the chai a double overtime steeping sesh next time I bake this.
Great recipe. Didn’t have all the right ingredients. Only 1 egg, double cream cheese, and used earl gray tea instead. Also baked in as cupcake size – 30 mins. Very soft and moist inside, crisp outside.
Good texture, needs spice.
This bread has a nice sweet flavor to it but there is something missing, perhaps cinnamon and a orange glaze on top?