Chocolate, Peanut Butter, and Banana. Are there any three ingredients more perfect for each other? It’s like the holy trinity of baked goods. When thinking of a recipe using Chocolate Peanut Butter Reese Spreads, adding banana was a no-brainer, but I was having trouble deciding how to best combine them in a recipe. I was telling my niece, who blogs at Rain City Vegan, about Reese Spreads and she came up with the brilliant idea to make a marbled banana bread with it.
She suggested taking a portion of the banana bread batter and mixing it with the spread, then putting alternating spoonfuls of light and dark batter into the pan, and finishing it off by swirling it around with a knife. I loved this idea! I’d never made a marbled cake or loaf before, and it sounded like fun, so I thought I’d give it a go.
It turned out so well! I was really happy with it, and very thankful that my niece had suggested it. And I’d just like to point on that I’m far too young to have an adult niece. Or kids, for that matter. Who are these little people running around calling me “mom”? I’m not sure how any of this happened.
Here are two out of three of my kids (I don’t know where the third one ran off to) enjoying my marbled banana bread. Cole liked it so much he tried to steal the remainder of the loaf when he posed for this photo — not that there was much left of the loaf anyway. We ate it up pretty quickly!
I cut out about half of the sugar from my usual banana bread recipe, because the Reese Spreads and ripe bananas add a lot of sweetness already. You could even cut it out all together and replace with a sugar substitute, like Splenda or Xylitol, if you want to reduce the sugar even more. This loaf was a delicious treat. I know my kids are going to be asking for banana bread with “swirly stuff” in it from now on. There’s no going back. I think I’ve bumped us into a new banana bread bracket.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Marbled Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (3 large)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup Reese Spreads
Instructions
- Grease one 9x5x3 loaf pan and set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Combine flours, baking powder, baking soda in a medium bowl.
- In another bowl, combine eggs, bananas, sugar, melted butter and vanilla.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients, and stir until moistened.
- Place Reese Spreads in a microwaveable bowl, and heat until softened and warm – not hot! (about 10-15 seconds).
- Add 1 cup of banana bread batter to the Reese Spreads and stir until combined.
- Spoon batter into the loaf pan, alternating between the regular batter and Reese Spread batter.
- Take a knife and swirl the batters together.
- Bake for 50-60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Cover the loaf with foil for the last 15 minutes of baking to prevent it from getting too browned.
- Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove loaf from pan and finish cooling on a wire rack.
GIVEAWAY!
Would you like to win a prize pack of Reese Spreads to try this recipe for yourself? I thought you might! Use the form below to enter to win an assortment of Reese Spreads and Reese Snacksters valued at $100. This giveaway is open to Canadian residents only, and will close on Oct 10/15. Good luck!
Reese Spreads Giveaway
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Disclosure: I am participating in the Reese Spreads sponsored blogger program through Ketchum Public Relations and have received monetary compensation and complimentary Reese products for writing this post. All opinions in this post are my own.
Food and Whine 
great recipe – i would definitely try it!
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I absolutely love REESE!!! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
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My family and I love Reese 🙂
Thanks for sharing the recipe – can’t wait to try it!
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Sounds/Looks like a yummy bread! Would love to try out the recipe, thanks for the giveaway!
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This spread would be perfect on top of the bread as well or on a banana muffin.
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Thanks for the chance this looks like a delicious product!
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Great post – thanks for the recipe! We have never tried this before – it looks so delicious! Thank you for the opportunity!! 🙂
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The Reese Spreads look so yummy!
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Looks delicious!
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I’ve been really wanting to try this one. Haven’t seen it in stores here yet.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Marbled Banana Bread looks delicious. I would make this.
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oh yum,I haven`t tried it yet,sounds delicious!
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I have not tried this yet but have seen it at the store. Looks delicious! I think I’m going to buy it for my 6 year old. He’s picky, but likes peanut butter cups. Thanks for the great giveaway!
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Love my Reese’s how can you go wrong with chocolate and peanut butter.
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Ok. So we love banana bread. We live Reese peanut butter cups. This recipe looks awesome. Thank you! Cannot wait to try it!
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yummiest giveaway ever!
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YUMMIE! This looks so good!
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These products look awesome and I want to try them all
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I have to admit, I would be spooning this right out of the jar! Thanks for the chance!
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Would love to win this great prize pack. Would love this on toast, crepes and in recipes like yours.
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My! that banana bread looks so yummy!
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It’s funny, the first thing though of that would taste great with the spread, was banana bread, so I will definitely being trying this recipe.
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Mmmm great recipe 🙂 Thanks for sharing
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Omgosh that loaf looks good, I want to bite into it right now
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the recipe looks really yummy
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What a yummy-sounding treat! Can’t wait to try this.
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I cant wait to try this product! First on some toast then maybe try it spread on pancakes!
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Yummy! Looks delicious! Thanks for sharing!
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YES!! A thousand times! YES!! Every since I found out about this product, all I could think was how good it would taste on banana bread. Thank you for bringing this to life!
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I will try the Chocolate Peanut Butter Marbled Banana Bread recipe
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Looks super yummy! Thanks for the recipe.
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What a great giveaway!
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Awesome recipie, on our must try list for shizzle!
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This recipe totally has me drooling! I’m going to make it tomorrow!
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I love banana bread and this loaf looks and sounds delicious!! I think I’d try using the spreads in cupcakes first. It would make an awesome filling and frosting.
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What a great recipe – looks super delish!
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This sounds yummy!
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I love the layout of your blog
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Thanks Julie!
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This sounds so amazing, I am obsessed with Reese’s!! I’d love to try this spread on crepes with bananas!
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This looks delicious! Thanks for this generous chance
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probably something I should avoid as it will become a new addiction, but …
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So Yummy looking, thanks for the chance
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I’d love to try this products! Looks so good and versatile!
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This spread looks really good.
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Thanks for sharing the recipe! I will be making this with the grandkids on the weekend!
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Looks so yummy!
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Thanks for the chance at this great contest.
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this would be so delicious on bagels
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That looks excellent! I will have to find a substitute for the Reese’s spread because I can’t get it in France. Always on the lookout for good bread recipes — sometimes recipes look promising and the bread comes out gummy (even if i don’t stir too much), so I’ll have to try this. Yum!
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Do you have Nutella there? That would probably work. Or even plain peanut butter with a little cocoa powder stirred in would be yummy. Yes, I’m always on the lookout for good bread recipes, too! This one worked well for me.
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