GIFT OF THE MAGI BREAD

GIFT OF THE MAGI BREAD image

Yield 2 loaves

Number Of Ingredients 14

1/2 cu butter, softened
1 cu sugar
2 eggs
1 t vanila
2 cu flour
1 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
1 cu mashed ripe bananas(about 2 medium)
1 can(11oz) mandarin oranges drained
1 cu flaked coconut
1 cu semisweet chocolate ships
2/3 cu sliced almonds, DIVIDED
1/2 cu chopped maraschino cherries
1/2 cu chopped dates

Steps:

1. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with bananas. Stir in the oranges, coconut, chocolate chips, 1/2 cu almonds, cherries and dates. 2. Pour into two greased 8x4x2 loaf pans. Sprinkle with remaining almonds. Bake at 350 for 50-55 min. or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 min before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.