Guess what…
You probably already have all the ingredients to make this:
So there’s no excuse not to make it.
Lame excuse #1:
“But I’m at work right now and can’t leave my office.”
Solution: Tell your boss you’re taking the rest of the day off for personal reasons. Better yet, tell him/her you’re going home to make peanut butter bread and you promise to bring a slice in return for a raise. (Then conveniently “forget” to save a piece. When you taste how good this bread is, you will see that the raise just isn’t worth it.)
Lame excuse #2: “I’m too lazy.”
There’s no yeast in this super-simple recipe, and you don’t need a mixer or even a blender. The prep work takes just 5 minutes!
Lame excuse #3: “I don’t like peanut butter.”
Solution: Then make this bread with almond butter, or cashew butter, pea butter, sun butter, whatever. Bam. Problem solved. If only all problems were so easy to fix.
Lame excuse #4:
(You’re still going? Really??)
Just go make it already! 😉
Peanut Butter Sandwich Bread
(Yields 1 regular-sized loaf)
Recipe found here: Healthy Peanut Butter Recipes.
- 2 cups spelt flour or white whole-wheat flour (or white, or gf all-purpose) (If using the gf all-purpose, it will work without xantham gum, but for best results add 2 tsp)
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup peanut butter (or nut butter of choice)
- 2 tbsp applesauce (or 2 tbsp more pb, or mashed banana, )
- sweetener (see recipe directions for amount)
- 1/8 tsp uncut stevia extract (or 1/4 cup more sugar, or 4 stevia packets)
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt (I used salted pb as well)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups milk of choice
- optional: chocolate chips, chopped peanuts
You can use any of the following as your sweetener: brown sugar, xylitol, coconut sugar, regular sugar, or evaporated cane juice. If you want a sandwich bread, use 1/3 cup. If you prefer a sweeter peanut butter bread, increase sweetener to 2/3 cup. (Either way, also add the 5th ingredient in the ingredient list.)
Preheat oven to 375 F. Mix the dry ingredients very well. Then mix in wet. (If your pb isn’t super-creamy, microwave it 40 seconds, or until soft.) Pour into a sprayed loaf pan and bake 40-45 minutes. Let cool at least 15 minutes before slicing.
For peanut butter overload, serve with: PB Cookie Dough Milkshake.
Question of the Day:
Do you like a specific type of bread for sandwiches?
I usually like plain whole-wheat bread (or sometimes Ezekiel cinnamon-raisin). And I just discovered Whole Foods’ “health starts here” chia bread, which is also really good. But homemade bread is the best… If only I could find the time to make it!
I will try this out! Sounds so good and very easy. 🙂
My son loves pd and jam sandwiches. He eats them everyday for lunch. He is going to LOVE this. Thank CCK
I was just thinking I needed to bake some delicious bread. Thanks for making up my mind with what to make 😉
Sounds delicious! I usually eat the low sodium Ezekiel Bread- I love it with drippy eggs the best!!
Omg i need this in my life asap!! Katie you are an evil genius! And I mean that in good way:)
I must make this now!!! You’re a genius.
One good excuse – I don’t think I can make it in an oven toaster. And I actually don’t like my bread sweet. If it is sweet, I call it cake. So if I change the name to peanut butter cake, I think I can take the risk to bake in the oven toaster 😀 .
Just made it! AMAZING. One of your best recipes yet 🙂
🙂 🙂 🙂
Hey! I have a question for ya. On a lot of your recipes you have flour and in parentheses you put “or GF all purpose” and I just wanted to know if you actually try the recipe with a GF all purpose flour, and it is successful. I only ask cause not all recipes work as well with gluten free flours….so it’d be a shame to waste a ton of ingredients if it doesn’t work out. I sure hope it does because I just made homemade nuttella…which would be DELISH on something like this! 🙂
If I haven’t personally tested it, I’ve had a friend or reader/blogger do so. I have one friend in particular who likes to take all my recipes and use Bob’s gf mix. But I definitely only put the flours I use… It frustrates me so much when someone says one of my recipes doesn’t work out, and it turns out he/she used a flour I hadn’t tested!
Thanks for the swift reply! I did look through the comments and saw someone tried it with GF blend…with success! So I’m going to try it tonight- yay!
nutella would be awesome on this. good call.
This looks amazing and the only excuse I have is I have no milk BUT it’s grocery night. I MUST get on this!
mmmmmmmmmmm peanut butter bread! I DO have all the ingredients! Looks delicious, Katie.
Luckily I don’t need to make excuses on Fridays- I’m an Educational Assistant, and Fridays are early dismissals 🙂 4 1/2 hour work day, woohoo!
YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMM!!! Gah! I love peanut butter and strawberry preserves together! I’m scared if I make this, then I will eat the whole loaf and gain a bajillion lbs. I’ll probably wait until Sunday 😉
I just finished making this, and it is so easy and delicious! I made one with 1/3 C PB and 1/3 + 1/4 C sugar and the other with 1/2 C PB and 2/3 + 1/4 C sugar (both with Almond Breeze original almond milk), and the batter for both was awesome! I split each mix to two 8×4 foil pans (the store didn’t have anything larger), so they aren’t exactly sandwich size but I can get 16 slices per recipe at only 113 and 145 calories. Hooray for CCK! 🙂
Haha! Excuse #1 is just evil! 😉
Looks delicious. My favourite bread is whole wheat, preferably with seeds and extra goodies. The deli near me has delicious fresh-baked bread which always smells delicious. But fresh baked bread in my house? With peanut butter? Definitely worth a try!
YUM!!! This sounds really good and seems pretty easy to make. 🙂
This is really interesting! My mom makes homemade bread ALL the time at home. After trying homemade bread, it’s so hard to go back! I think I’ve gotten spoiled 🙂 I always put peanut butter and honey on my bread, especially after it comes out warm out of the oven. If it’s not warm, sometimes I put it in the microwave. I love when the peanut butter and the honey melt and run together. I’ve never thought of actually putting peanut butter IN my bread before though. I’ll have to try it! As for bread for sandwiches, I usually like a wrap, especially “Joseph’s Flax Bread.” I think you can buy it pretty much anywhere. I make this really yummy wrap with it using peanut butter, honey, a few slices of banana, and almonds. It’s such an energy booster and perfect for a pre-run or post-run snack/meal. I usually throw it in the microwave too for 30 seconds just to let the peanut butter and honey run. I love peanut butter! I’m interested to try this peanut butter bread!