OUTSTANDING PEANUT BUTTER BANANA BREAD

Here’s my version of a peanut butter banana bread mixed with crunchy peanuts and chocolate chips. It’s moist, flavorful, and scattered with crunchy peanuts and chocolate chips.

This peanut butter banana bread took many, many tries to perfect and I’m not gonna lie about that. The failures tasted ok but the texture was subpar. 

I swirled peanut butter on the top before baking and it looked gorgeous, but the peanut butter dried after baking and crumbled off when sliced. Or how about the pictures with the two long sliced bananas on top? Try eating that after a day and tell me how that gooey mushy banana tastes. Goes to show, looks aren’t everything, folks. How many times do we have to drill that into our heads?  

Then I swirled some peanut butter in the middle only to have the bread come out doughy in the center and that extra peanut butter was the straw that broke the camel’s back because it overflowed from the pan. Good thing I’m wise enough to use a baking sheet for these “just-in-case” scenarios. 

So my friends, after many tries, (and I’m talking many!) I’ve ended up with this recipe that tastes delicious, has great texture, and won’t make a mess in your oven. Shall we see what it is?

We’re going to start off using the typical amount of bananas - three medium - which comes to approximately 1 ½ cups. Creamy peanut butter, extra virgin olive oil, and dark brown sugar are responsible for keeping this bread moist.

If you’re a follower of the genetic chef, and you should be, you already know I use bourbon or some form of liqueur to flavor my baked goods. For this peanut butter banana bread, I decided to use whiskey to flavor my peanut butter banana bread.

WHISKEY?

IN PEANUT BUTTER BANANA BREAD?

If you want to get a little adventurous, try a peanut butter flavored whiskey. I use Skrewball peanut butter whiskey because I had it on hand. It was something I had to try and sounded interesting.

I used extra virgin olive oil and found it worked beautifully. A neutral oil also works well.

Measuring peanut butter can be a pain. I use this wonderful gadget and it makes it much easier.

I’ve found ½ cup of chocolate chips to be just the right amount. You would think more is better but I found less to be just fine. If you want more, add more. Just know it will create more volume in  the pan. I don’t recommend more than one cup total.

I like to coat my baking pans with sugar just like I do when I make my blood orange olive oil loaf or my delicious zucchini bread. It's only a tablespoon but it gives a nice crust.

PEANUT BUTTER ICING TAKES THIS OVER THE TOP!

Here’s the icing on the cake or should I say peanut butter banana bread…

A creamy dreamy peanut butter icing tops this peanut butter banana bread and it’s gooooood. Scatter the top with some chopped salted peanuts and you have a masterpiece.

So how did peanut butter and banana start a relationship? I don’t know, let’s give Elvis the credit! I mean he sure loved his peanut butter and banana sandwiches. I bet he would have loved this peanut butter banana bread.

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