Bake Off Part 4: Peanut Butter Choccy Banana Bread with Walnuts

Becca Wilson
Aug 29, 2017
2 min read

Wow what a mouthful right? Try saying that when you have a mouthful of the stuff!

Last night I had the urge to try making some kind of banana bread and I thought to myself, what goes well with bananas? Peanut butter, chocolate and walnuts of course!

The recipe below is how I turned this mix of a few of my favourite ingredients into a brilliant banana bread. However, again, there's good and bad news. I'll start with the good. Having just eaten a slice of the bread, I can safely say it is very yummy indeed (in my opinion) yay!

However, the bad news...I'm not 100% sure where I went wrong, but I got to watch the bread rise up over the tin and then sink back down (imagine a deep valley ). I stupidly didn't get a photo for you as I was trying to salvage what was left, but I did end up with a 'full side' of the valley and an'end of the valley' from the tin so it's not all bad. The rest can be served in a bowl with cream, or custard, I guess! Some ideas for what could have gone wrong: the tin being too full so I could split the mix between two tins next time, too much baking powder, opening the aga too many times or putting the tin in the wrong part of the aga and then moving it (I still can't get the hang of using an aga). Anyway, it doesn't look professional but at least it tastes good.

Fancy a go of making this bread, without it looking like a valley?Have a go:

(Serves 12)

Ingredients:

160g gluten free plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
75g cup butter
160g granulated sugar
2 large eggs, beaten
250g reese's peanut butter chocolate spread
3 bananas, mashed
150g chocolate chips
125g walnuts

Method:

Preheat oven to 170°C.
Line a loaf pan with baking paper and set aside.
Sift flour and baking powder into a medium sized bowl and combine.
In a separate bowl combine butter and sugar together, mix until creamy.
Add eggs and beat the mixture until fluffy.
Add peanut butter chocolate spread, mix well.
Add dry ingredients into the wet ingredients slowly, about 1/3 at a time. Mix between additions. Add mashed bananas, chocolate chips and walnuts. Use a wooden spoon and mix by hand, (not with a mixer) just until incorporated.
Pour the mixture into loaf pan. It should be about 3/4 full.
Place the pan on the middle rack in the oven. Bake for about 35 to 40 minutes. You want the top to be golden brown.
Remove the pan from the oven and allow to cool for about 5 minutes. There you go, yummy banana bread!