Chocolaty Peanut Butter Banana Bread

MackinacBride's Note:

You HAVE to try this!! What a great combination-how can you go wrong with peanut butter, chocolate, and bananas?? This recipe is from the Better Homes and Gardens Annual Recipes cook book (1998).

• Total Time: 1 hrs
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 20

Yield: 2.0 loaves

• 2 slightly beaten eggs
• 1 cup mashed banana (2-3 medium)
• ¾ cup sugar
• ½ cup creamy peanut butter
• ½ cup milk
• 2 cups self-rising flour
• ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• ½ cup chopped peanuts (optional) or ½ cup pecans (optional)

Directions:

1. Grease the bottom and 1/2 inch up the sides of two loaf pans; set aside.
2. In a medium mixing bowl stir together the eggs, bananas, sugar, peanut butter, and milk.
3. Stir in the flour just until moistened (batter should be lumpy).
4. Fold in chocolate pieces and peanuts or pecans.
5. Spoon batter into the prepared pans.
6. Bake in a 350°F oven about 45 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
7. Cool in pans on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
8. Remove loaves from pans.
9. Cool completely on a wire rack.
10. Wrap and store overnight for easier slicing.
11. **If you do not have self-rising flour, substitute with 2 cups all-purpose flour plus 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoons baking soda.

Reviews

[Camzmom]

As some one mentioned it can get dry. I've made this 3 different times, today I used organic peanut butter which has a little more peanut oil in it. It was PERFECT with the extra oil, so if you were to make this without organic peanut butter, I'd add maybe 1/4c. of oil to the recipe, to help with the dryness. oh and DO NOT OVER COOK that will also contribute to the dry factor. This is a great base recipe to play with. :o)

[zoo66]

Came out dry and not too much peanut butter flavor.

[whtbxrmom]

I am not a big fan of banana breads. I made this because I had over ripe bananas to use up. To my surprise I thought they were pretty good! I used the mini chocolate chips. I didn't have any nuts so I used extra chocolate chips in their place. You can never have too much chocolate! I baked this as muffins instead of in a loaf. That way it is easy to pop one into lunches or grab them on the go. I baked them for 17 minutes at 350. They turned out great! Thanks so much!