Peanut Butter Banana Bread

Submitted by wife2abadge

"Mmmm...a nice change from regular banana bread. Use all white flour if you like. I've made three mini loaves with success, as well as one large one."

 

• Ready In: 55mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 16 slices
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• 1 cup skim milk
• 1 cup white sugar
• 3⁄4 cup peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large bananas, chopped
• 1 1⁄4 cups white flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt

directions

1. In a blender, combine the milk, sugar, peanut butter, vanilla, and bananas and blend til smooth.
2. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
3. Add the banana mixture and mix well.
4. Pour into a 9x5 inch loaf pan that has been sprayed with nonstick spray.
5. Bake at 350 degrees 45 minutes or til toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
6. Cool in pan before slicing.

Reviews

[ercelialaporte]

I have made this recipe with some changes. I added 3large eggs, 1/2 tsp extra of baking powder, and when after ifinished mixing I pour into my prepare 9x5 loaf pan all except maybe 1 1/2 cups of the batter. In this reserve batter, I added 3/4 cup nutella. I blended well and topped the batter in pan. Then I marbleized with icing spatula. Ibaked it foe about 55 minutes. Then. I realized that I could not expect for nutella to becom totally cook like rest of the bread. I think that next time I will bake only 45 minutes because the outside became bit scorched. It was very moist and very high. I will remove the crust cut it into thin slices ( about 3/8" thick). I will cut each slices in 4 even squares. I will mix lemon or orange zest along with some half n half into lowfat cream cheese and use this as a spread to put 2 squares together to make a small pastry. I might also make pouring royal icing (like petit fours) and ice them. If I do this I will let you know it came out. Bon Appetit!

 

[MissBossy0425]

This bread is amazing!! The only change I made was to substitute almond butter for the peanut butter (simply a flavor choice). The bread came out moist, dense and delicious. I love the fact that eggs are not necessary. Great for those days at the end of the month when the pantry is a little bare. You can still whip up a beautiful, healthy snack for the kids. Try this recipe, it will not disappoint.

 

[jswan]

Very tasty alternative to traditional banana bread. A bit too sweet even using 7/8 cup. Easy to do, would recommend this as a good after school snack.

 

[Heirloom Tomato]

This tastes delicious and has a smooth texture. I used natural peanut butter and substituted all whole wheat pastry flour instead of using any white flour, and cut the sugar back to 7/8 cup. I made it in a large (14 cup) food processor. I don't think it would fit in a smaller one. Add wet ingredients first, mix, then add dry ingredients and pulse just until blended. It did take longer to bake. I gave it an hour and it was still a little underdone. Next time I will use two pans. Peanut butter is the dominant flavor but there is a hint of banana too. Because it was underdone, I sliced some and "baked" the slices at 350 degrees for 15 minutes in my toaster oven. It's really good toasted. I will make this again, it's yummy. Thank you!

 

[Peppermint Wind]

It was so easy and so, so very delicious! I used natural peanutbutter to avoid the hydrogonated oil and it turned out great-a nice light peanut butter flavor and the banana flavor was perfect, too! My husband and 8 year old son love it, too. My husband wouldn't let me bring it to the Boy Scout meeting because it was too good. Moist and dense...just what I was hoping for. It took longer to bake than on the recipe, perhaps because of the natural peanut butter? I just kept testing it with a toothpick until it came out clean. Oh! And it popped right out of the pan so amazingly...I actually gave it a bit of a jerk to plop in onto my cooling rack and it kept on going onto the floor...but it still tasted great when I picked it off the floor (you might want to sweep before making this bread=)