Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Bread

5 from 3 votes

Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Bread

Try this healthy chocolate peanut butter banana bread that's soft, tender and not overly sweet. Using all natural feel-good ingredients, this is a wholesome treat that you'd want to make and enjoy. Yes!

Prep Time20

Cook Time1

Servings:

Author: Bea & Marco

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

2 cup whole grain spelt flour (260 g)
⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder (25 g)
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt

Buttermilk

½ cup full fat milk (125 ml), room temperature
½ tablespoon lemon juice

Wet Ingredients

½ cup natural peanut butter (140 g)
¼ cup honey (80 g)
1 cup mashed ripe banana (270 g) or from 3 bananas
2 large eggs , room temperature
2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Other

1 ½ cup dark chocolate chips (150 g) or use whichever you like
more peanut butter , for topping

Instructions

Dry Ingredients

Add all ingredients into a bowl, mix well and set aside.

Buttermilk

Add all ingredients into another bowl, leave for 10 minutes

Wet Ingredients

Add all ingredients into buttermilk bowl and whisk everything together using a hand whisk.
Now add in ½ of dry ingredients and mix well before adding the rest, try not to over mix. The batter will be quite thick, no worries. Finally add in chocolate chips and fold everything together using a spatula.

Baking

Pour batter into a greased and lined 4.4x10 inch (11x25 cm) loaf pan. Spread evenly (shaking the pan helps). Spoon some peanut butter on top, making lines or swirls as you like.
Bake in a preheated oven at 340ºF (170ºC), no fan, on lower ⅔ rack, with upper and lower heat, for 70 minutes or until you insert a skewer in the center and it comes out clean. Check at minute 50 to avoid over baking.
Remove from the pan and leave to cool completely before slicing. Enjoy!

Notes

Use spoon and level method when measuring the flour (for cup measurement)
Use portable oven thermometer for a more precise temperature reading (I use it too)
Refer to my post above for substitutions

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