Banana Pear Bread With Dates

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup splenda granular (sugar substitute)
• 4 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3/4 teaspoon orange extract
• 2 bananas (very ripe)
• 1 (15 ounce) can diced canned pears (drained)
• 3 cups flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup sour cream
• 2/3 cup chopped pitted dates

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350.
• 2 grease 2 loaf pans.
• 3 in a large bowl cream together butter, sugar, splenda, vanilla, orange extract, and eggs.
• 4 put into your blender 2 peeled bananas and half the can of pears (not juice). puree.
• 5 stop blender and add cinnamon and enough pears to equal 2 cups of puree total. blend again until all is smooth.
• 6 add the flour, soda and salt to the bowl of creamed butter and sugar mixture.
• 7 now add the fruit puree and the sour cream to the mixture and mix well.
• 8 fold in chopped dates.
• 9 scoop half the batter into each loaf pan and bake for about 1 hour.
• 10 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.
• 11 cool for at least 30 minutes before serving.