Banana Peanut Butter Protein Bread

Banana Peanut Butter Protein Bread

Here it is! This is my (somewhat infamous) Banana Peanut Butter Protein Bread aka "Elvis" Protein Bread. It's full of banana goodness, packed with protein, and it has swirls of peanut butter in every slice. Seriously, what could be better than that? I think if The King were still alive today, he would definitely approve! And maybe if he had this recipe then he would have had an easier time managing his weight. :-D

Everybody who posts any kind of recipes has some kind of banana bread. So, it seemed almost taboo for me not to have one. But I didn't just want any old kind of banana bread. I wanted something different. I wanted something with peanut butter!

But more than that, I wanted something that was also pretty darn simple to make. Hey, I am still a man, after all. Complex recipes and hours upon hours in the kitchen doing prep work are two things that don't work for me at all. I'm not going to say this is my easiest recipe. That award almost certainly has to go to my 10min Chocolate Protein Pudding. But as far as banana bread goes, you can't get any better than this.

Dry Ingredients

• 112g Coconut Flour
• 3scoops Vanilla Whey Protein Powder (I used BodyTech Whey 24)
• 1tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 2tsp Double Acting Baking Powder

Wet Ingredients

• 6tbsp Egg Beaters
• 2tbsp Reduced Fat Butter - Melted (I use I Can't Believe It's Not Butter - Light)
• 105g Agave Nectar
• 1tsp Vanilla Extract
• 5oz Chobani Fat Free Vanilla Greek Yogurt
• 0.5cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
• 2 Incredibly Ripe and Mushy Medium Bananas

Peanut Butter Filling

• 21g Agave Nectar
• 1tbsp Reduced Fat Butter - Melted
• 2tbsp Creamy Peanut Butter

Directions

1. Preset the oven to 325-degrees F
2. In a mixing bowl, mix all of the dry ingredients together until well integrated
3. In a separate mixing bowl, mix all of the wet ingredients together until smooth (no lumps)
4. In yet another (small) bowl, mix together the peanut butter filling with a fork until it is a single mixture
5. Combine the wet and dry ingredients together until well blended into a batter (I used a handheld mixer for this)
6. In a prepared (sprayed with zero calorie cooking spray) 5x9" bread pan, just line the bottom with the batter from step 5
7. In a back and forth pattern (think Charlie Brown's shirt) add the peanut butter filling on top - this should end up covering most of the visible batter. But don't take the filling all the way to the edge - leave a little space where batter is visible from above at the edges
8. Pour the remaining batter on top. Make sure no peanut butter filling is visible
9. Bake for 75min at 325-degrees F
10. Let cool for at least 5min and enjoy!

Nutrition Info

Serving Size: 1 slice

Servings: 12 in a loaf

Calories: 160

Protein: 10g

Carbohydrates: 21g; Fiber 4g

Fat: 4g

Sodium: 184mg

The ingredients and directions I gave above were for my original Elvis Protein Bread. But after I made it, my girlfriend requested nuts. So, I made it again and that time I tossed in 1/4 cup of chopped walnuts into the dry ingredients. The nutrition info was then as follows.

Serving Size: 1 slice

Servings: 12 in a loaf

Calories: 176

Protein: 10g

Carbohydrates: 22g; Fiber 5g

Fat: 6g

Sodium: 184mg

After we ate that loaf, I still felt like I wanted to crank it up a notch. My girlfriend wanted nuts added, but I could have cared less. I wanted even more peanut butter! So, I tossed out the nuts and I did a double PB Elvis Bread! And guess what? It was f*ing awesome!

Here's what I changed.

Peanut Butter Filling

• 42g Agave Nectar
• 1.5tbsp Reduced Fat Butter - Melted
• 4tbsp Creamy Peanut Butter

I put down half of the peanut butter filling and lightly covered it with batter. Then I put down the other half of the peanut butter filling and covered it with the rest of the batter. Holy sh*t, it was epic! When I took a bite, it was a serious mouthgasm! 

The Double PB Elvis Bread nutrition info was as follows.

Serving Size: 1 slice

Servings: 12 in a loaf

Calories: 182

Protein: 10g

Carbohydrates: 23g; Fiber 5g

Fat: 6g

Sodium: 194mg

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Posted by Clayton Long