It seems that every time I open a food magazine or cookbook I am enticed by a new banana bread recipe. This time it was in a BBC Good Food magazine where their recipe for a Banana Streusel Bread contained so many flavorful ingredients that I just knew it was a winner.

The surprise ingredient in this Banana Streusel Bread is chunks of caramel. Now, we do not have to make the caramel, all we need to do is to cut up pieces of “Werther’s Original Caramels” which are found in the candy section of your grocery store. Some of the pieces of caramel are folded into the banana bread batter and some are mixed with pieces of pecans for a delicious streusel topping. I love the decadence of the pecan and caramel streusel topping. Now, when the bread first comes out of the oven the caramel pieces on top of the bread are hard and brittle, but as the bread cools, the caramel melts and becomes all soft and sticky and melds with the pecans. Absolutely delicious.

Note: Although this recipe calls for coffee flavored yogurt, which goes very well with the mashed bananas, caramel and pecans, you can substitute caramel, vanilla, or even plain yogurt with excellent results.

Click here for recipe.

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