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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Mary Long
What a great pairing of peanut butter in banana bread! The PB, bananas, and chocolate are amazing together. Great recipe!
Beth Pierce
Thank you, Mary! So glat that you liked it!
Brittney Naylor
I had never thought of adding peanut butter to banana bread! It was so yummy! I wish I had found this recipe years ago.
Beth Pierce
Thanks, Brittney! We love it too!
Katherine
This peanut butter banana bread was delicious! I need to make this more often! Thanks for the tasty recipe, Beth!
Beth Pierce
The pleasure is all mine, Katherine!
Ann K
The Peanut Butter Banana Bread recipe you’ve shared combines two classic flavors in a moist, delightful bread, perfect for breakfast or a snack. The semisweet chocolate chips took the bread to the next level.
Emily F
This bread was DIVINE! I am such a huge fan of banana bread, but I’ve never thought to put peanut butter in it. What a fabulous recipe. I love the combination!
Beth Pierce
Thanks, Emily! We love the combination too!
Benjamin
This bread is freaking amazing. It has everything you’d ever want in quick bread. The banana makes the bread so moist, and the banana and chocolate chips are such a classic combo.
Beth Pierce
Thanks, Benjamin! I am so glad that you liked the bread!
Olivia T
I made this for my husband, and he is absolutely flipped over it. The smell almost made me abandon my keto diet! Almost. LOL. This is the best banana bread in the world, according to my husband.
Beth Pierce
So glad that he liked the peanut butter banana bread.
Krystle
Wow, I didn’t think banana bread could get any better. You provided me wrong! Will try with chocolate chips next time.
Catalina
I can only immagine the amazing smell and taste of this bread! Yum!
Erin
This Peanut Butter Banana couldn’t look any more perfect!
Amanda
This was so delicious! Super moist and amazing flavor!
Sara
There is nothing quite like the balance of peanut butter and bananas! I have some bananas that are just about ready to be baked; I am excited to try this!
Krissy Allori
Peanut butter and banana are a match made in heaven in this bread!
Kate
What a great idea! I love banana and peanut butter together, baked into a bread sounds like a match made in heaven!
Lauren
I can’t believe I’ve never had peanut butter banana bread before! I love this combination. Chocolate chips are not optional for us! Haha!! Delicious!
Kristen
I love peanut butter anything and this bread is no exception. Perfect with a cup of coffee!