Healthy Homemade Banana Peanut Butter Spread
Bananas + Peanut Butter — it is a simple, yet delicious, combination. Over the years I have seen a ton of people walk around my college dorm eating this combo for breakfast (and the occasional midnight study snack). You just peel a banana, spread on some peanut butter and walk out the door to class. Boom. Easy peasy. But my banana stock is totally erratic — I either have way to many or none at all — so I needed to find a different way to get my banana-peanut-butter fix. And I found it when I saw this recipe. My mouth dropped to the floor and I knew I had to make it: Homemade Banana Peanut Butter Spread!
All the banana flavor without needing fresh bananas on hand all the time! I didn’t have 2.5oz of freeze-dried bananas (I only had 2oz) so I added some natural banana extract to the recipe (sooo good). The first time I made the recipe I added a ½ tsp of ground cinnamon, but ended up omitting it as I liked the pure banana + peanut butter flavor. Feel free to use it, though!
Delicious, creamy, rich, sweet, salty.
Thick and totally spreadable… it’s almost like frosting.
*goes weak in the knees*
Healthy Homemade Banana Peanut Butter Spread
Ingredients
- 2 cups Natural Peanut Butter (the drippy kind)
- 6 tbs Freeze-Dried Banana Powder **
- 8 packets Natural Sweetener (stevia, Truvia, etc.)
- ¾ tsp Salt (to taste)
- 2 tsp Banana Flavor
Instructions
- In a blender or food processor, add all of the ingredients and grind until smooth and creamy.
- Scoop into serving jars, seal tightly, and refrigerate to store. Keeps in the fridge for ~1 month or so.
Recipe Notes
So. This Banana Peanut Butter Spread. You need to make it.
It’s good on your finger a spoon or even a fresh banana, when you have some in stock. I go through bouts of always having a dozen fresh bananas to weeks with no bananas whatsoever. It’s nice to indulge in banana flavor without always needing a perfectly ripe fruit on hand!
If you want to take the banana + peanut butter combo OVER THE TOP, spread some of this all over my Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Bread. You won’t regret it.
Enjoy!
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With love and good eats,
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– Jess
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Indulge − no strings attached!
You just combined my two favourite foods!!! Big smile on my face from this recipe 🙂
Davida-
Yay!! I hope you make a batch of this ASAP and LOVE IT 🙂
-Jess
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Awesome! So glad you enjoyed it!
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Mmm, this sounds so yum! I love bananas and peanut butter on rice cakes so this spread sounds awesome! I don’t have banana extract, do you think I could substitute vanilla extract to add another flavor element?
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This sounds good! Could I use real banana? More likely to have real than get freeze dried. If so, how much do you think? Thanks!
Joy-
Real banana sounds so much more appealing here, but I’m afraid it won’t work very well. The bananas will turn brown from oxidation and the spread won’t last very long, even in the fridge (~3-4 days) 🙁
The freeze-dried bananas actually thicken up the peanut butter so it’s more like the typical storebought kinds and not so drippy 🙂
Sorry for the inconvenience, but the freeze-dried bananas are the way to go!
-Jess
How long does it last in the refrigerator?
I would say about 1-2 weeks as long as it’s in an airtight, sealed container! 😀
-Jess
I know this is an old post but, wow thank you! I am so into flavored home made nut butters and this one rocks..I changed it a little as I could not find freeze dried banana’s all sold out but, I used freeze dried apples and switched the vanilla to lemon extract and it is unbelievable!!!
Mmmmm peanut butter + freeze dried apples sounds AMAZING!!! I definitely need to try that 😀
This sounds so yummy! Love the idea of having a healthy snack around the kitchen. Where do you get the freeze dried bananas in ATX?
I actually order my freeze dried bananas from Amazon because it’s so much cheaper than storebought, but I’ve seen it at Whole Foods. I’m sure it’s also at Sprouts 🙂
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