Peanut Butter Banana Bread
Updated June 02, 2020
Peanut Butter Banana Bread is a peanut butter lover’s dream banana bread! Enjoy a slice with extra peanut butter or a drizzle of honey and you will be in banana bread heaven!
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Pin ItPeanut butter is one of my all-time favorite foods. I have been a peanut butter lover since I was little. I could always count on a PB&J to make me happy, I still can. It is one of my go to comfort foods. I think peanut butter makes just about everything better, including banana bread.
Have you tried Peanut Butter Banana Bread? If you are a peanut butter lover, you are going to go bananas for this banana bread recipe. It is full of peanut butter flavor! You all know I am obsessed with baking banana bread and this one is a winner!
Ingredients
This recipe is made with pantry friendly ingredients!
- All-purpose flour
- Baking soda
- Kosher salt
- Brown bananas (the browner the better for optimal sweetness)
- Peanut butter (the star ingredient)
- Butter
- Brown sugar
- Egg
- Vanilla extract
How to Make
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- Mash the ripe bananas with a fork. Add the peanut butter and melted butter and stir until combined. Stir in the brown sugar, egg, and vanilla extract. Stir until smooth.
- Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, don’t over mix.
- Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 50-65 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean. Check the bread at 50 minutes, just to be safe. Oven times vary.
- Remove the pan from the oven and set on a wire cooling rack. Let the bread cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the bread and carefully remove from the pan. Let the bread cool on the wire cooling rack until slightly warm. Cut into slices and serve.
How to Store
The bread will keep on the counter, wrapped in plastic wrap, for up to 3 days. This bread also freezes well. To freeze, cool the bread completely and wrap in plastic wrap and place in a freezer bag. Freeze for up to 1 month. Defrost before slicing.
The Bread for Peanut Butter Lovers
If you are a peanut butter lover, like me and my boys, make sure you make a loaf of Peanut Butter Banana Bread. There is peanut butter inside the moist banana bread and it is loaded with peanut butter flavor.
I also like to spread peanut butter on my slice of banana bread. Sometimes, I even add a drizzle of honey, which reminds me of peanut butter, banana, honey sandwiches; one of my favorites!
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Peanut Butter Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup mashed brown bananas you will need 3 large brown bananas
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter melted and slightly cooled
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mash the ripe bananas with a fork. Add the peanut butter and melted butter and stir until combined. Stir in the brown sugar, egg, and vanilla extract. Stir until smooth.
- Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, don’t over mix.
- Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 50-65 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean. Check the bread at 50 minutes, just to be safe. Oven times vary.
- Remove the pan from the oven and set on a wire cooling rack. Let the bread cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the bread and carefully remove from the pan. Let the bread cool on the wire cooling rack until slightly warm. Cut into slices and serve.Note-the bread will keep on the counter, wrapped in plastic wrap, for up to 3 days. This bread also freezes well. To freeze, cool the bread completely and wrap in plastic wrap and place in a freezer bag. Freeze for up to 1 month. Defrost before slicing.
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Great recipe!! 3/4 cup sugar is a little too much for me personally, but 1/2 cup was just right. I used natural style peanut butter from Costco. Lovely balance of flavors and textures with such simple ingredients!
It’s so good!
A good idea but the measurements didn’t work for me at all. Maybe it was the type of peanut butter or the cup sizes I used but I found I needed to make the following tweaks: added an extra egg; a splash of milk; and a teaspoon of baking powder to loosen the mixture and to make sure it had sufficient rise. I also added chocolate chips then scooped it into muffin cases to cut down the cooking time to 35mins. It worked well.
What a wonderful change from the same old banana bread. We love this!
It is a delicious loaf!