Peanut Butter Banana Bread

Peanut Butter Banana Bread is a super easy quick bread that your family will love. For more diverse flavor add walnuts, pecans or chocolate chips.

Course sweet bread

Cuisine American

Keyword banana peanut butter bread, bread peanut butter and banana, how to make peanut butter banana bread, peanut butter banana bread recipe

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 1

Servings

Calories 363kcal

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.

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.