Gift Of The Magi Bread

• 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

1. 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. 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.

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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/gift-of-the-magi-bread-51527221 (may not work)