Peanut Butter Banana Bread – moist, tender banana bread made with creamy peanut butter. Full of peanut butter cups and Nutella swirl!
If your house is anything like mine, you are still knee deep in Halloween candy. I let my son have one piece of candy in his lunch, and then if he is lucky he can have another piece after dinner. Needless to say, it lasts a really long time around here. Usually every Halloween I have to go through and dump out what was left from last year. It is kind of sad.
This peanut butter banana bread is perfect for those leftover Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. If you haven’t stashed them away for yourself, that is. Or maybe that is just me 🙂 The bread also uses up those browning bananas you have on the counter or stashed in your freezer. See, I am here to help! And because it is me, and I don’t know when to stop I added a layer of Nutella on top. Jean made this Nutella Banana Bread, and I just couldn’t get it out of my mind.
Peanut butter banana bread does not require peanut butter cups. You could leave them out or use chocolate chips if that is what you have round. They just make it extra special!
I am not usually a big fan of plain banana bread. There is just too much banana flavor. I realize that doesn’t make much sense. I like bananas, but only every once in awhile. So when I saw this recipe that added peanut butter to the batter I was exited to give it a try. There is still a hint of banana in the background, but the peanut butter really shines through. And then every once in awhile you get a bite with a peanut butter cup, and you are in heaven!
- 3 medium over ripe bananas , mashed
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 8 oz bag of Reese’s Mini cups (or 1 cup chopped Peanut Butter Cups)
- 1/4 cup Nutella
- Preheat oven to 350. Spray an 8x4 inch loaf pan liberally with non stick spray.
- Whisk together your flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl mix together bananas, peanut butter, canola oil, egg, sugar and brown sugar. Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture, and stir until just combined. Be careful not to over mix. Fold in the peanut butter cups.
- Spread the batter into your prepared pan. Drop spoonfuls of Nutella across the top, and swirl into the batter. Bake for 55-65 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Remove and place on a wire rack to cool. After 20 minutes, you can remove from pan, and place directly on the wire rack to cool completely.
Adapted from Cookies and Cups
Erin S
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Cassie | Bake Your Day says
November 6, 2012 at 6:03 amI think PB + Banana is one of the best flavor combos out there. This bread looks perfect!
Tara @ Chip Chip Hooray says
November 6, 2012 at 6:53 amOh, hello. Glorious!!
carrian says
November 6, 2012 at 9:48 amBOOYAH! I totally have a pb banana bread coming up in the next month. DELICIOUS!
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking says
November 6, 2012 at 9:55 amI don’t have any reese’s cups left overs, the kids took most of them, but that means a shopping trip is in the future.
Love pairing peanut butter and banana, mmm
Steph@stephsbitebybite says
November 6, 2012 at 10:40 amOK, for a peanut butter FREAK like me this looks like total heaven!!
Valerie says
November 6, 2012 at 10:56 amI’m not a plain banana bread fan either, but this is anything but plain! I’d inhale the entire loaf in one sitting. 😀
Patty says
November 6, 2012 at 11:17 amI have a bag of mini peanut butter cups in my pantry,,,how did you know,lol!!
Elizabeth@ Food Ramblings says
November 6, 2012 at 12:44 pmMy husband will love me forever when I make this for him!!
Jessica@AKitchenAddiction says
November 6, 2012 at 2:26 pmThis bread is pretty much perfect with peanut butter and chocolate!
Ramona says
November 6, 2012 at 4:37 pmI do the same thing with my kids… one in the lunch box and one with dinner if they eat all their veggies. 🙂 I love using up the candy… it’s just too tempting sitting around for me. 🙂 This banana bread look wonderful.
Laura (Tutti Dolci) says
November 6, 2012 at 5:57 pmI love PB & banana bread, what a great use for leftover candy!
Lora @cakeduchess says
November 6, 2012 at 8:01 pmI take any kind of banana bread and now you gave me an idea of what to make next :)love this!
Stephanie @ Eat. Drink. Love. says
November 6, 2012 at 9:08 pmOh lordy, this looks incredible! And I have a ton of bananas to use up!
Pretend Chef says
November 6, 2012 at 9:16 pmGreat flavor combo! I’d have to buy some peanut butter cups since the neighborhood my son trick-or-treated in didn’t give any out. Not even one. I need to make a loaf of this soon.
Jessica | Portuguese Girl Cooks says
November 7, 2012 at 7:28 amWow, bananas, peanut butter cups, and Nutella? Can’t get much better than that!
Carol | a cup of mascarpone says
November 7, 2012 at 7:50 amWhat a great use of leftover candy! Fantastic idea with a bread that I love!
Suzanne says
November 7, 2012 at 10:23 amLooks like a tasty bread, I’m a pb and banana lover so this could be dangerous.
Lisa {AuthenticSuburbanGourmet} says
November 7, 2012 at 8:47 pmLove this – very interesting!!! How cleaver are you? Bet it did not last long in your household. Delish!
mandalahi says
November 8, 2012 at 6:41 amI so wanted to try it, it looks delicious and tasty, yummy
amy @ fearless homemaker says
November 8, 2012 at 7:46 pmMmmm, this looks fantastic + what a fabulous use of leftover halloween candy! genius. =)
Magic of Spice says
November 9, 2012 at 6:34 pmWhat a delicious idea for leftover candy! Looks moist and delicious!
Tracey says
November 11, 2012 at 11:44 amYou are killing me with these candy recipes, I want all of them!! This combination of flavors is to die for.
Jean says
January 14, 2013 at 3:24 pmI just got a pingback on this post–how odd since it’s from a couple of months ago. Anyway, love what you’ve done with the banana bread. I love peanut butter cups–would have never thought to add them to banana bread but this is brilliant, especially with the peanut butter.
Erin says
January 14, 2013 at 3:37 pmI am going through and changing the recipe format on all my old recipes. Apparently lots of people will be getting pingbacks over the next month!