Banana bread just got a serious upgrade with my Peanut Butter Cup Banana Bread recipe. This banana bread is moist, dense, and filled with peanut butter cups.
Make sure to try my Chocolate Chip Banana Bread too!! I use a technique that makes it THE BEST!
Peanut Butter Cup Banana Bread Takes A Classic To the Next Level!
We all know and love banana bread. It’s one of those recipes that almost everyone loves, and has a recipe for, whether it be their grandma’s or one they developed on their own. It’s easy to make, a great use of bananas that are about to expire, and well…most importantly…it’s delicious!
So what I have doe today is made a moist, sweet banana bread recipe, but I’ve added a little peanut butter to add a nutty flavor along with miniature peanut butter cups. This is a chocolate/peanut butter lovers dream!
But is Peanut Butter Banana Bread GOOD?
Peanut butter and bananas are a combination that has been around for ages. Have you ever had a peanut butter and banana sandwich? This is the same vibe!
The peanut butter flavor in this bread is subtle and not overwhelming, but adds a depth and a nuttiness that combines perfectly.
I actually developed this recipe way back in 2011, but decided the pictures and recipe needed a little updating. The recipe itself stayed pretty much the same, with a few very minor tweaks, and the images…well…they now look as delicious as the bread tastes!
Ingredients:
- all purpose flour
- baking soda
- baking powder
- kosher salt
- mashed banana
- peanut butter
- vegetable oil
- eggs
- granulated sugar
- miniature peanut butter cups
Tips When Making This Banana Bread:
- If you don’t use parchment paper or just don’t have it on-hand, make sure to grease your loaf pan well! Sounds like a simple thing, but this recipe has a fair amount of added sugar and will stick to the top and sides as it rises!
- Don’t over-mix banana bread batter. It might seem lumpy, but that’s ok! If you over-mix the bread will become too dense and a little crumbly!
- If you can’t find the mini peanut butter cups you can chop larger ones, OR use chocolate chunk in their place.
- I don’t recommend using natural or homemade peanut butter in this recipe.
Love Banana Bread? Try Some Of My Other Delicious Recipes:
Reese’s Peanut Butter Banana Bread
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hr
- Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins
- Yield: serves 10 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
Banana bread just got a serious upgrade with my Peanut Butter Cup Banana Bread recipe. This banana bread is moist, dense, and filled with mini peanut butter cups!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 3 very ripe medium bananas, mashed
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 8– ounces miniature peanut butter cups or chopped peanut butter cups
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 9 x 5- inch loaf pan with parchment paper and coat with nonstick spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt, set aside.
- In another large bowl mix together the bananas, peanut butter, oil, egg, and sugar.
- Pour the dry ingredients into your wet ingredients and stir until just combined. Batter will be lumpy.
- Stir in the peanut butter cups and spread batter into prepared pan.
- Bake for 55 – 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
- Let the bread cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
Store airtight at room temperature for up to 3 days
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 336
- Sugar: 25 g
- Sodium: 271.2 mg
- Fat: 16.6 g
- Carbohydrates: 43.4 g
- Protein: 6.8 g
- Cholesterol: 16.6 mg
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The picture of an entire bag of peanut butter cups in your batter gave me a nice laugh. 🙂 I’d love to make this, but no peanut butter cups here. They recently introduced Skittles in Germany, and although I don’t really like Skittles, I got really excited thinking maybe they had also introduced Reese’s and I went to check the candy aisle of all the stores. But nope. That day is sure to never come. My banana bread recipe is almost the same, so I can already say that this bread is delicious. 🙂
No Reese’s? What a shame! Try using chocolate chips, won’t be quite the same, but will add that chocolate to the batter. My mom makes banana bread with chocolate ships in it all the time! Yummy! I’ll have to share this recipe with her!!
If you have a friend who lives in Canada, they can mail them over to you, lable them as “Gift” – We do it all the time for my sister in Australia :o)
I find myself coming back this page continuously looking at this recipe. I have already taken some banannas ( my children’s healthy snack) and have hoarded them away so they are the right ripeness so I can make this not so healthy yumminess (which most likely I will not share with my children)! You speak to my heart when you involve Reese’s …..
Great minds think alike Shelly! That is so funny that we both put the Reese’s to good use. All of your creative, original recipes inspire me!!
awww, thanks so much 🙂
Reeses makes everything better:-)
yummy and inviting bread
No way…did you really add Reese’s to banana bread…this is TOO delicious. I am in awe.
oh hello all my favorite things IN ONE LOAF PAN!
wow – amazing yummyness on the screen!
You’re an evil genius.
That is a beautiful bread! I have made many banana breads in my day but never with peanut butter cups. It might even get my boyfriend to try banana bread!