Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Bread

You usually think of banana bread as a breakfast food. When you make this banana bread, be prepared for a dessert! With multiple layers of banana bread, peanut butter topping, and chocolate chips, this sinfully sweet concoction is to die for!

Ingredients:

- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2 large bananas)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1/4 cups flour (can substitute 1/2 cup wheat flour for 1/2 cup white flour)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two 8x4 inch loaf pans. (We used one 8x4 inch and one 9x5 inch pan and it worked fine.)

In a small bowl, prepare the topping by stirring the flour, brown sugar, peanut butter, and cinnamon until crumbly. Set aside.

In a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese, and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat well after each addition. Beat in the bananas and vanilla.

Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon in a separate bowl. Stir the flour mixture into the banana mixture just until moistened.

Reserve 1/4 of the batter. Spread the remaining 3/4 of the batter into the two prepared pans.

Reserve 1/4 of the topping. Spread the remaining 3/4 of the topping over the batter in the pans.

Sprinkle half of the chocolate chips over each pan (i.e. this step uses all of the chocolate chips). Then spread the remaining batter over each pan, and top with the remaining topping.

Bake for 45-55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.