Carrot Cake Banana Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting

Banana Bread should be moist, flavorful and always served warm. We decided to take two favorites and create a carrot cake banana bread with cream cheese frosting!

As you know, we love banana bread at our house, but apparently so do all of you as some of our most viral videos and recipes involve banana bread, especially our peanut butter banana bread and zucchini banana bread. With spring on my mind I couldn’t help but tackle a carrot cake banana bread with cream cheese frosting.

Carrot Cake Banana Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting

Carrot cake should have a delicious spice to it which comes from cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and all spice. It should also be a tender, moist crumb that doesn’t crumble when you cut into it. That’s a lot to shove into a banana bread, especially because the banana flavor can over power everything.

Strangely enough, the solution was to add all of the spices, the banana and then a little applesauce. I have absolutely no clue why, but the applesauce adds a little moisture so you don’t get overpowered with the banana flavor, but without adding any apple flavor as well. It was a whim, but it totally paid off.

Cream Cheese Frosting for Carrot Cake

There are a lot of different recipes for cream cheese frosting for carrot cake, but I prefer it as simple and creamy, so no pineapple, spices or even sour cream thrown in. The most important thing about cream cheese frosting is to let the cream cheese sit out on the counter for just a bit so that it is soft.

Why is My Cream Cheese Frosting Lumpy?

How to get rid of the lumps in cream cheese frosting? Well, that’s a good question, but not a very likely thing to fix. Again, you really just need softened cream cheese which you should first beat alone in the bowl with a hand mixer in order to smooth it all out. If you find your frosting has lumps in it you can try to beat it against the side of the bowl, but there really isn’t a way to pull those lumps back out.

Can You Freeze Banana Bread?

Yes! You can freeze banana bread, but don’t let it hang out in the freezer for months on end, at the most 4-5 weeks in the freezer otherwise it does start to create a dry bread once you defrost it.

How to Freeze Banana Bread

When to freeze banana bread should be the first thing we talk about. The banana bread needs to cool completely and rest on the counter in order to let the bread firm back up. Also, no frosting allowed, save that for when you get the bread back out of the freezer and are ready to enjoy it.

Think about this, have you ever sliced into hot bread? What about slightly warm bread? The inside tears and when you take a bite it quickly squishes together in your mouth. Well, as it sits out and cools the bread firms up, allowing you to freeze it without the bread condensing into a flat block.

Once it is totally cooled, wrap the banana bread twice in plastic wrap and then place in a large ziploc bag, pressing out the air as you seal it. If you don’t have a big enough bag, just wrap it well in tin foil.

Before you snag the recipe check out the recipe that went viral on Facebook and make sure you’re following us there too!

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Carrot Cake Banana Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting

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