peanut butter chocolate chip banana bread

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AHHH!!!!
I have done gone and did it again.

 

ok, ok, ok…the improper English and the horrid grammar is pretty par for me and my blog.  Or is it my blog and I?  I don’t know.  I have never known.  No matter the amount of teaching done by countless English teachers in my education or the hours spent banging my head against the kitchen table studying grammar, very little if any ( and I stress the words any and little) actually sank in and can be recalled.

Trust me, I have tried.  Like, really tried.  I like proper grammar…or, I like the idea of proper grammar…because I wouldn’t recognize it in broad daylight, that I know for sure, yo.

But besides absolutely bad grammar and the improper use of verbs and the creating of new words…
I have made banana bread…again.
I tried eating and thus, adoring banana bread…again.
I took one bite (that was heavily/heavenly slathered with peanut butter) and I simply could not muster another…again.


I left it on my favorite green saucer, wishing it were pumpkin bread or cranberry walnut, or pistachio pound…really anything besides banana.
It was Saturday morning, coffee was brewing, Jeff Corwin was on TV chasing sting rays in the Caribbean (I don’t have Cable), there was a definite chill in the air…
All fine scenarios in which to enjoy freshly baked bread…
I so wanted to like it.
But I just couldn’t.
I had oatmeal with cranberries and maple syrup instead.  It was ok.

However, don’t go thinking this banana bread isn’t the bomb diggity, because while I didn’t enjoy it, it was devoured one thick slice after another all weekend long and come Sunday evening, as the last light of the weekend was starting to dim… one lonely chocolate chipped studded slice remained.

So, I suppose this bread would be considered a victory in the kitchen…just a failure of my taste buds and olfactory senses.  Why does it have to smell so banana-ey

Like I have mentioned here before…I like bananas.  Just not banana things.

And bananas slathered in peanut butter = the best after school/work snack ever.  So it only makes sense that peanut butter should/would end up in a loaf of banana bread from time to time…And then why leave out chocolate in this shindig of a banana party… (I even tried digging just chocolate chips out of the bread, leaving empty chocolate coated craters behind – I am that person, I can not be trusted – and they even tasted like bananas…ACK!)

So…next up…well, there is this  coconut rum browned butter banana bread in the oven as I type…Not sure why there are sooo many bananas in my freezer….
Can’t say I never gave banana bread a chance…

peanut butter chocolate chip banana bread
Makes one loaf – using an 9 x 5 inch loaf pan
Ingredients
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 3 medium very ripe bananas, mashed
  • ½ cup creamy peanut butter
  • ½ cup granulated white sugar
  • ½ cup light brown sugar
  • ⅓ cup buttermilk, well shaken
  • ¼ cup vegetable oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line a loaf pan (9x5in) with parchment paper or butter all sides, set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt. Set aside.
  3. In a medium bowl, whisk together mashed bananas, peanut butter, both sugars, buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla extract.
  4. Add the wet ingredients, all at once to the dry ingredients. Fold together, scraping the bottom of the bowl to pop any pockets of flour.
  5. Fold in chocolate chips. Be careful not to over mix.
  6. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and sprinkle a few chocolate chips on top of batter. Place in preheated oven and bake until golden brown and a toothpick, when inserted to middle, comes out with just a few moist crumbs clinging to toothpick – about 60 to 75 minutes. (if top begins to darken beyond golden, tent with tinfoil).
  7. Remove from oven and let cool on wire rack.
  8. Store at room temperature wrapped in plastic wrap.

Recipe Adapted from Brown Eyed Baker

 

Published by Mallory

A twenty - something (at least for a little while longer) trying to squeeze the most out of life...but mainly baking/cooking up a storm in my kitchen while watching Netflix.

4 thoughts on “peanut butter chocolate chip banana bread”

  2. It’s funny you feel that way about bananas and banana *things.* I like bananas, love banana bread, but need to absolutely be in the mood for anything getting in the mix–like walnuts or chocolate chips. Still, I could absolutely make an exception for this bread and chocolate chips… especially with some PB!

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