Peanut Butter Banana Bread is a super delicious, easy, quick bread that your family will love. For even more flavor, add walnuts, pecans, or chocolate chips. This delectable banana bread is moist and quick to make, and the flavor combination is amazing.
Indulge in this simple yet satisfying peanut butter banana bread recipe. Perfect for breakfast or as a tasty dessert. this bread is made with everyday pantry ingredients and can be whipped up in no time
How To Make Peanut Butter Banana Bread
First, preheat the oven and grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan with butter or shortening. Then, whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl and set it aside for a few minutes. In a large bowl, combine the melted butter, peanut butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, and mashed bananas.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir just until combined. Fold in the chocolate chips. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs. Allow the loaf to cool for a few minutes before inverting onto a wire rack to fully cool.
What Is Quick Bread?
Quick breads are bread recipes with leavening agents other than yeast and eggs. The basic ingredients for quick bread are flour, liquid, salt, and a leavening agent such as baking powder and/or baking soda. Many quick bread recipes also include eggs, but not as the sole leavening agent. If you like making and eating quick bread as much as we do, try banana nut bread, strawberry bread, carrot bread, and lemon blueberry bread.
Recipe Tips
- For best results, use really overripe bananas. This is a great recipe to use for those overripe bananas that you froze. Just let them thaw in the fridge overnight.
- Creamy (not all-natural) peanut works best in this recipe.
- Do not overmix the dough. Mix just until the ingredients are incorporated. Overmixing the dough can result in tough bread.
- If you want to add chocolate chips to the top before baking, cut a parchment paper overhang for the loaf pan for ease in getting the bread out of the pan without smooching the chips.
- If the top of the bread browns too much while baking, cover loosely with aluminum foil.
- Store wrapped in plastic wrap or in a zip lock storage bag on the counter for up to 4 days. See more below about freezing this bread.
Recipe Variations
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 3/4 cup chocolate morsels
- 3/4 cup peanut butter morsels
- 1/2 cup chopped macadamia nuts
Can Peanut Butter Banana Bread Be Frozen?
The bread must be fully cooled before packaging and freezing so condensation does not get trapped inside. Wrap the loaf in plastic wrap and place it in a freezer bag, removing as much of the air as possible. Freeze for up to 3 months. To thaw, remove it from the freezer, take it out of the freezer bag, and set it on the counter for several hours up to overnight.
Peanut Butter Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 medium overripe bananas mashed
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9X5-inch loaf pan with butter or shortening.
- Whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl and set it aside. In a large bowl, combine the melted butter, peanut butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, and mashed bananas.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir just until combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs.
- Allow the loaf to cool for 10 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack to fully cool.
Notes
- For best results, use really overripe bananas. This is a great recipe to use for those overripe bananas that you froze. Just let them thaw in the fridge overnight.
- Creamy (not all-natural) peanut works best in this recipe.
- Do not overmix the dough. Mix just until the ingredients are incorporated. Overmixing the dough can result in tough bread.
- If you want to add chocolate chips to the top before baking, cut a parchment paper overhang for the loaf pan for ease in getting the bread out of the pan without smooching the chips.
- If the top of the bread browns too much while baking, cover loosely with aluminum foil.
- Store wrapped in plastic wrap or in a zip lock storage bag on the counter for up to 4 days. See more below about freezing this bread.
Nutrition
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Brenda
Made this for my family and they loved it.
Beth Pierce
That is great! So happy that you liked the bread!
Cindy
This looks absolutely delicious! I’m going to make this for my family, but I’m also going to adjust the recipe without the sugar for my pups and chickens ❤️
Beth Pierce
Thanks, Cindy! Enjoy!
Vicky L
Peanut butter and banana bread is the ultimate combo! This loaf smells so good while baking and tastes even better with my afternoon tea!
Beth Pierce
Thank you, Vicky! I am so happy that you liked it!
Hari
Anything made of peanut butter is delish in my opinion and this banana bread is no exception to that. Awesome recipe and it freezes very well.
Beth Pierce
So glad that you liked it, Hari!
Frank
Great combo! All my favorite flavors rolled up into one delicious sweet bread. Warm a slice up in the microwave for about 15 seconds and what you have is pure heaven.