Peanut Butter Oreo Banana Bread Recipe

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Super moist banana bread with triple the peanut butter and an Oreo ganache on top.

Triple the peanut butter in this sweet banana bread with a decadent cookies & cream packed ganache on top!

I don’t really feel like I need to pitch you the merits of peanut butter, chocolate, and banana bread. Because if you’re not already a fanatical lover of all three… you’ve possibly lost your way and landed here on Something Swanky.

Triple the peanut butter in this sweet banana bread with a decadent cookies & cream packed ganache on top!

When I first made this recipe back in 2013, I wasn’t totally sure how to incorporate the Oreos. All I knew was that Iย wanted to make a peanut butter banana bread with lots and lots of Oreos. So I just tried cramming them all into the batter. And it was…. fine. A little chaotic, not quite perfect, but still pretty okay.

And then about a year later, I made this Scotcheroo Banana Bread with the dreamiest peanut butter-butterscotch ganache on top. And that’s when I realized exactly what I wanted to do with the Oreosย in this banana bread recipe.

It’s taken me another 3 long years toย finally get around to doing it, but here we are– making a deep, dark chocolate and peanut butter ganache packed to the brimย with Oreo crumbles!ย ????

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The ganache! People! The ganache was the answer all along. They were never quite right in the batter. Somehow they blended in. That signature cookies & cream taste was lost in the flavor of bananas and the texture was way too soft. You just could find the cookies in the bread!

Well, there’s no getting lost in here. We’re smothering those babies in chocolate and spreading them front, top, and center of this recipe. You can’t take a bite without getting a mouthful of cookies and cream!

Triple the peanut butter in this sweet banana bread with a decadent cookies & cream packed ganache on top!

Peanut butter was another flavor that surprisingly got a little lost in the old recipe. It didn’t really have a place to stand out and shine back then. But today’s version of banana bread puts peanut butter right back out in the spotlight. It’s in the bread batter, in the ganache, and drizzled right on top where you can’t possibly miss it.

Chocolate, peanut butter, Oreo, and banana lovers– this bread is for you!

Triple the peanut butter in this sweet banana bread with a decadent cookies & cream packed ganache on top!

Enjoy!

Triple the peanut butter in this sweet banana bread with a decadent cookies & cream packed ganache on top!

Peanut Butter Oreo Banana Bread

Yield: 10 slices

Super moist banana bread with triple the peanut butter and an Oreo ganache on top.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups ripe bananas (7-8 medium bananas)
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup peanut butter, melted in the microwave
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 cup dark chocolate chips

For the Ganache Topping

  • 2 cups chocolateย chips
  • 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 10 Oreos, crushed
  • Additional peanut butter for drizzling

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325ºF.
  2. Mash the bananas with a wire whisk. Mix in the brown sugar and sugar until well blended.
  3. Mix in the eggs, one at a time, and then the vanilla.
  4. Add the flour, melted peanut butter, salt, and baking soda. Mix with a spatula or wooden spoon. Fold in the walnuts.
  5. Prepare two loaf pans (10x5x3) with parchment paper and cooking spray. Divide the batter between the two pans.
  6. Bake for 60-70 minutes, until bread passes the toothpick test. Remove and let cool completely.

For the ganache:

  1. In a microwave safe bowl, melt the peanut butter and chocolate chips together. Heat in 30-second increments, stirring in between heating until smooth.
  2. Fold in the Oreo crumbles.
  3. Spread ganache on top of bread. Drizzle melted peanut butter over top.
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24 thoughts on “Peanut Butter Oreo Banana Bread Recipe”

  1. Oh my goodess! I love banana bread and you just took to of my favorite things and put it over the top. I have to try this out. ๐Ÿ™‚

  2. This is probably one of the best banana breads I have ever seen! I know what I’ll be doing with my overripe bananas this week!

  3. The crunchy chocolate oreo on top of the peanut butter and banana sounds like heaven! To think that for years I thought oreos were just cookies to be dipped in milk! What limited thinking. Thank goodness for my new found baking knowledge. ๐Ÿ™‚

  4. This looks absolutely amazing! I never put oreos together with banana, let alone peanut butter. The combination has me crazy interested. I made a really good banana bread the other day and it made me want to make a loaf every week. Definitely going to give this a shot when I have oreos laying around.

  5. Made this yesterday ! Was really good but i would of added more bananas and would not use the food processor for the oreos in the batter so it can taste more !!! But if not it was very good ๐Ÿ™‚ thank you for this great post

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