Secret Recipe Club - Peanut Butter Banana Bread

Its time for  Secret Recipe Club again - I love being part of this fun club!  My favorite part of the SRC is assignment day - I love when I get that e-mail in my inbox with the link to the blog that I get to choose my recipe from.  I also love that all of my  assignments have all come from blogs I have never been to before, it's really a great opportunity to find some fabulous bloggers out there and some delicious recipes. If  you are not familiar with exactly how this club works, you can stop by the website and learn all about it - maybe even join in! Basically you are (secretly) assigned a blog to checkout, browse through their recipes, choose one to make and blog about it. It's a lot of fun! 


This month I was assigned yet another fabulous blog, Sweet Flours.  Allison had so many delicious recipes to choose from and I know this Peanut Butter Banana Bread won't be the only thing I make from her blog.  I chose this particular recipe because I love love love banana bread and who doesn't love some peanut butter?  Also, I had some bananas on the counter that were in perfect banana bread condition. As soon as I saw this recipe I jumped out of my seat and started baking.  I only modified this recipe a tiny bit, I didn't have any chunky peanut butter on hand so I used creamy and then added some dry roasted peanuts. The peanut butter glaze that tops this bread is so good and I will be using it again and again....enjoy!!


recipe adapted from Sweet Flours

What you need:

1 1/2 cups of mashed bananas, about 2

1/3 cup plain fat free Greek yogurt

1/3 cup smooth peanut butter

1 big handful of dry roasted peanuts

3 tablespoons butter, melted

2 large eggs

1/2 cup each, granulated sugar, brown sugar

1 1/2 cups AP flour

1/4 cup ground flax seed

3/4 teaspoon of baking soda

1/2 teaspoon of salt

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

for glaze:

1/3 cup of powdered sugar

1 tablespoon low fat milk

1 tablespoon of creamy peanut butter

What you do:

Preheat oven to 350°.

Combine first 5 ingredients in a large bowl and beat with a mixer at medium speed. Add granulated and brown sugars; beat until blended.

In another bowl, combine flour and next 4 ingredients (through cinnamon).  Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture and beat just until blended.

Pour the batter into a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Bake the bread for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack in pan for 10 minutes.  Remove the bread from pan and let cool.

To prepare glaze: combine all glaze ingredients in a small bowl, stirring with a whisk.  Drizzle glaze over bread.