Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Filled Chocolate Banana Bread
A banana bread like no other you’ve had before. It is beyond words and super easy to make. I never knew something so wonderful could happen to me lol. The chocolate banana bread is so deliciously rich and the peanut butter is this sweet creamy amazingness. Please get on this!
Ingredients:
You want to start by making the peanut butter filling so that it can sit in the refrigerator for a while to firm up. You can use brown sugar or white sugar. Make sure your cream cheese is softened and your peanut butter is all natural and room temperature as well.
I predominantly bake with avocado oil because it is neutral in flavor and yields a very moist bread/loaf/muffins. Obviously butter tastes the best, but I think avocado oil is the better healthy choice for me. You can also use white sugar instead of brown sugar.
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Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Filled Chocolate Banana Bread
Ingredients
PB Filling:
- 4 oz cream cheese, room temp.
- 1/3 cup peanut butter, room temp.
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup light brown sugar
Loaf:
- 3 ripe bananas, mashed
- 1/2 cup avocado oil *
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour
- 1/4 cup cacao powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp espresso powder (optional)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F. Line a 9×5 inch loaf pan with parchment paper.
PB Filling:
- In a medium bowl, using an electric hand mixer, beat your filling ingredients until smooth. Cover the bowl and refrigerate while you make the batter.
Loaf:
- In a large bowl, mash your bananas. NExt add in your oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla and mix until combined.
- Next add in your flour, cacao powder, baking soda and salt and mix until combined. Lastly fold in your chocolate chips.
- Pour 75% of the chocolate batter into your pan. Then add in the peanut butter layer spreading out gently. Laslty top with your remaining chocolate batter. Bake for about 1 hour and 10 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. I loosely covered mine with aluminum foil to prevent the top from burning about the 50 minute mark. Allow to rest in the pan for 15 minutes then transfer to a cooling rack to set for 30 minutes.
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I made this using gluten-free flour (Bob’s Red Mill gluten free 1:1 baking flour) and by substituting coconut sugar for both the light brown sugar in the filling and the brown sugar in the rest of the batter. It turned out so good! I doubled it, making two large loaves and two mini-loaves, and took it to my parent’s for Easter. No one knew it was gluten-free, and family-members who were turned off by the idea of the cream-cheese in the centre, tried it and admitted it wasn’t too noticeable (in a good way). Everyone loved it, kids and adults alike!
Hi! Could I use oats instead of flour and maple syrup instead of sugar. I’m trying to make it a bit healthier (kind of like your Healthy Banana loaf)
Covered loaf at 45 min mark and was cooked after 1 hour. Probably could have taken it out after 57 min. Was really nice when l took it out but then the middle fell a bit. No matter was still tasty 😋. Husband actually liked it as well. Might try using butter instead of the Avocado oil next time.
Thanks for the recipe
Sounds delish! Does this need to be refrigerated after baking or can it stay out for a couple days?
Could you please post macros for this recipe? 🙏🏻
Can you substitute the four for almond flour? If so is it the same amount ?
Hi Carmelina, I have not tried this recipe with almond flour and cant say for certain if that would work….
Please give me the nutritional values and calories per serving? Thank you.
Looks good! What’s the best flour to substitute to make this gluten free?
Hi Misha, thank you! I would use all purpose gluten free flour.