I don't think I'd try to mix the two in the same recipe. I'd bake the bananas with a tiny bit of butter, brown sugar and cinnamon.

What about a bread pudding to use up the cranberry sauce?

I wouldn't bother with the banana in that as the cranberry would overpower it. Make up your egg custard then pour it over chunky stale-ish bread, then swirl some of the cranberry sauce into it-throw in a few walnuts or pecans for crunch and then bake.

I really need to make some muffins for the freezer.
I certainly don't have to combine them! I'm willing to make 2 kinds. I'm not as concerned with the banana flavor as the nutirent value and using them up rather than wasting them. That's why I thought maybe combining would be OK.

I should have been clearer to start, sorry.

Deanna

Well, Deanna, if you really want to use them both I'd make banana muffins and put a spoonful of cranberry sauce in the middle of each one. Don't send any to me, OK?

The bananas are easy enough, there are a load of banana bread/banana cake/banana bran muffin recipes.

The cranberry sauce is a big tougher. I'd either try something like a pumpkin or banana type muffin recipe and sub the cranberry sauce for the pumpkin or banana, maybe add dried cranberries, OR I'd stick with the original thought and use it in the middle of the muffins instead of jam.

Annie

I've made this one a few times, and though I like the full fat version with chocolate chips better, this is not a bad healthy alternative!

Banana Bread Lite

2 cups flour
½ cup whole wheat flour
¼ cupd ground flax seed
1 cup brown sugar (or brown sugar splenda)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp salt
3 egg whites
2 tbsp butter
1 cup plain yogurt (lo fat preferred)
1 tsp vailla
½ cup walnuts

Mash bananas and mix in all other wet ingredients. Mix dry ingredients and add to wet ingredients. Add chopped nuts. Put in PAM sprayed 9 x 5 loaf pan. Bake at 325 for 1 hr 20 min.

I like this one:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1725,157184-255206,00.html

(You're not a hi-maize person, are you?)

I'd probably double the recipe and substitute half the yogurt for mashed banana. You could probably add extra banana if you added some oats to soak it up.