Swirlies

I found the chocolate peanut butter banana recipe (found on Piece of Cake's blog)! And, as promised, I will post it forth with!

You'll begin to notice that I love making banana bread, banana muffins... really anything with bananas. As much as my boyfriend and I enjoy eating bananas, we always have left overs... hence all the banana recipes.

I do like to switch things up from time to time so it's not just the same old plain jane banana bread. This version takes the cake! I mean, what's not to love? It's essentially a Reese's with banana filling!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Swirl Bread

Ingredients
For the chocolate syrup
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup dark unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 hot water
1/4 cup agave nectar (or honey)
1/8 teaspoon salt

For the batter
2 cups AP flour (or wheat)
3/4 teaspoon baking soda 
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup all natural creamy peanut butter
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup light brown sugar
2 large eggs (or substitute 1/2 cup of applesauce)
1 cup mashed ripe bananas (2-3 bananas)
1/4 cup plain yogurt (I used Chobani)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

How it's done
-Preheat oven to 350 
-To make the chocolate syrup for the swirls: wisk together the sugar, cocoa powder, hot water, agave nectar, and salt in a pot. Cook mixture over high heat and then back down to simmer, stirring until the mixture is smooth. Remove from heat and set aside.

- In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, and salt.
- In another bowl, mix together the peanut butter and oil until creamy. I used a wisk, but if you have an electric mixer, feel free to use that too!
- Add honey to peanut butter and oil mix, beat until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
- In another bowl, mix the bananas, yogurt, and vanilla. Then add into peanut butter mixture.
- Mix dry and wet mixes until everything is incorporated.
- Take 1/3 of the batter and mix it in with the chocolate syrup
- In the bread pan, fill first with half of the banana batter and then top with 1/2 of the chocolate batter. Swirl the mixtures together (I found putting a spoon in the bottom and pulling the bottom batter to the top worked well). Repeat with the rest of the batter.
- Bake for about an hour and 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

I won't lie, it was one of my more messier recipes I found. But believe you me, it's worth the extra cleaning!