Banana and Peanut Butter Bread Pudding

What do you do with bananas that are on their way out-the-door and more sourdough bread than you can possibly finish? Banana and Peanut Butter Bread Pudding, of course! If you’re a fan of “dump and bake” kinds of recipes you’re going to love this one. The most time-consuming part is simply cutting up the bread and slicing the bananas!

Now, cards on the table…I don’t particularly love either bananas OR bread pudding but there is just something about this recipe that’s hard to beat! Great for a crowd, this vegan dish, that’s really more like dessert than breakfast is made with dairy free butter, oatmilk, and JustEgg and comes together in under an hour!

What you are going to need to buy:

For the Bread Pudding

• 3-4 cups of crusty bread, cut into cubes

• 3 ripe bananas cut into slices

• 2 cups of oatmilk

• JustEgg to replace 3 large eggs

• 1 tablepoon of cinnamon

• 1 teaspoon of nutmeg

• 1/2 cup brown sugar, more for sprinkling

• 1/2 teaspoon of salt

• Splash of Vanilla

• 1/2 cup of peanut butter

• 1/2 cup of Walnuts

  
  For the Icing

• 1/2 stick Dairy Free Butter, melted

• Powdered Sugar, 1 cup

• Splash of Vanilla

• Pinch of Salt

What you are going to need to do:

1. Layer your cubed bread and banana slices into a baking dish (I used an 8 x 10) sprayed with non-stick spray.

2. Combine the remaining ingredients (minus the nuts and brown sugar for sprinkling) and wisk until well combined. Don’t be too worried if the peanut butter doesn’t completely combine or there are still little pieces. They will melt when baked!

3. Pour mixture over the bread and bananas. Spoon any peanut butter that didn’t totally dissolve evenly over the top.

4. Top with walnuts and sprinkle with brown sugar.

5. Bake at 375 for 40 minutes. You can gently lay a piece of foil over the baking dish to keep the top from burning but keep sides loose and un-crimped. You don’t want your Bread Pudding to “steam” under the foil…it’s just to keep the top from getting too crispy! Remove the foil for the final 15 minutes of baking.

6. While the Bread Pudding is baking mix together 1/2 stick of melted vegan butter with 1 cup of powdered sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla and a pinch of salt. (Add more or less sugar depending on how thick you like your icing.)

7. At 40 minutes, remove from oven and let stand for 15 minutes before drizzling the top with icing and serving.
   

   A couple of notes about this recipe: I know there are a lot of “egg-replacers” that vegan and non-dairy diets use in baking. I used the product JustEgg and it turned out wonderfully. I can’t guarantee that others will do the same…they may be great but I’ve not tested any others with this particular recipe.

   Love chocolate? You could totally throw in a handful of chocolate chips to this recipe and it would be delicious!

   
   Love, Light, and Lentils, my friends!
   Sarah

Easy Peanut Butter Banana Bread

Who doesn’t love bananas? Well, spoiler alert…I really don’t! But, I do happen to love banana bread so when I was at my Dad’s house this past weekend and saw the poor little bunch of spotty, sad, bananas on his counter I knew just what to do. Plus, the addition of peanut butter in this recipe is a total game changer!

To be fair, I am a far better cook than I am a baker and even before a took a step back from eggs and dairy, baking was never my favorite thing to do…but this Peanut Butter Banana Bread, made with dairy free butter, and JustEgg is so quick and easy, even I can master it…so I know that you can too! Not worried about it being vegan? No problem…it works just as well with the traditional ingredients you have in your fridge!

What you are going to need to buy:

4 medium bananas, very ripe

1/3 cup dairy-free butter, melted

1 teaspoon Baking Soda

1 pinch Salt

1 cup Brown Sugar

1/4 cup of JustEgg, egg replacer

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1/2 cup of creamy Peanut Butter

1.5 cups AP Flour

What you are going to need to do:

Preheat over to 350 degrees.

To begin, in a large bowl, mash 3 of the bananas with a fork or potato masher until a paste forms.
To your bananas, add the melted butter and stir until well combined.
Add the brown sugar, Just Egg, Vanilla, Peanut Butter and mix until smooth.
Sift together the flour, salt, and baking soda and slowly fold into the wet ingredients until well incorporated. Do not over mix.
In a standard loaf pan that has been sprayed with non-stick baking spray, scoop the batter into the pan and using a rubber scrapper, make sure that the batter is level, smooth, and fills all corners.

Dust the top with a sprinkling of brown sugar, for a nice crust, when baked.

Cut the remaining banana into slices and arrange on top of the batter.

Bake at 350 for 50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the loaf.

Let cool 10 minutes before serving.