Clean Eating Peanut Butter Bread Recipe (2024)

This delicious, peanut butter bread is a wonderfully nutty option for breakfast toast, french toast, and more!

This wonderful quick bread is made without yeast and requires no rising time. Simply mix all the ingredients and bake! It’s an extremely easy recipe!

What Is Peanut Butter Bread?

This bread, usually made without yeast and rising times (but not always), has peanut butter as its main ingredient. While the flavor is indeed that of peanuts, the strength of peanut flavor varies from recipe to recipe. Some can be quite bland and more like sandwich bread. Others can be more like sweet bread, while still others have a strong peanut butter flavor that can easily be enjoyed as toast with jam for breakfast.

What’s The Deal With Peanut Butter Bread?

This was originally a low-carb or keto loaf of bread. It went a bit viral on social media and before we knew it, everybody was blogging about it. You can find the low-carb version in the next section. I updated the recipe to be more of a breakfast bread. Something you could enjoy as toast. The low-carb version is more of a small sandwich bread.

Types Of Peanut Butter Bread

There are many variations to this type of bread. Some of them are:

• Peanut Butter Banana – Add in 1 mashed, ripe banana to this recipe.
• Peanut Butter Streusel – Make a streusel and top the bread with it before baking. You’ll want to make the bread a bit sweeter as well. Up the sweetener content in this recipe to a ¼ or ⅓ cup, depending on how sweet you want it.
• Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip – To this recipe, change the sweetener measurement to a ½ cup and add 1 cup dark chocolate chips.
• Peanut Butter Apple – Add 1 medium grated apple to the batter along with 2 tsp. cinnamon, and up the sweetener measurement to ⅓ cup.
• Low Carb Bread – Change the recipe to this: 1 cup peanut butter, 5 large eggs, 1 tsp. baking soda, 1 tsp. ground cinnamon and ½ tsp. pure liquid stevia. Do not add any of the other ingredients. Simply mix and follow the rest of the directions. Reduce heat to 325 F. and bake for 35-40 minutes.

Can You Use A Different Nut Butter?

You sure can! Try almond butter or cashew butter. Even hazelnut butter would be delicious here. And for those with nut allergies, while I haven’t tried it, in theory, a seed butter should work just fine as well.

Ingredients For Peanut Butter Bread

Peanut butter – Only use natural peanut butter for the bread. Avoid any peanut butter that has added oils or sugars. If you look at the ingredient list, you should only see peanuts listed. And maybe some salt. But nothing else. This is better for overall health as well as the flavor of the finished loaf of bread. You can use smooth or crunchy peanut butter. The choice is yours.

Unsweetened almond milk – You can use any milk you have on hand. Almond milk is just what I had handy.

Granular sweetener – I used xylitol because that’s what works best for my blood sugar. But you can use any sweetener you prefer. Sucanat, coconut sugar, and monk fruit are all good choices here.

Eggs – It’s best if these are room temperature, but I’ve made this with cold eggs too, and it does just fine.

Oat flour – If this needs to be gluten-free, make sure you get a package labeled as such. You can also grind your own oats in a processor. But you might not get as fine of a grind. This won’t hurt your bread, but it might be just a hint coarser than with store-bought flour.

Baking powder – Make sure this is fresh or newer baking powder. Old stuff won’t do a good job in leavening your bread.

Salt – I used pink Himalaya salt, but use whatever fine salt you have. The only salt to avoid is coarse salt.

How To Make Peanut Butter Bread

Preheat oven to 350F. and line a standard loaf pan with parchment. Spray with oil, using an oil sprayer.

Mix all wet and dry ingredients together until smooth.

Using a spatula, scrape the batter into a parchment-lined loaf pan.

Tap the pan gently on your word surface to settle the batter in the pan.

Bake at 350 F. for about 40-45 minutes. The bread is done when a knife or toothpick inserted in the center pulls out clean. Cool completely on a cooling rack.

Slice and serve.

How To Store Peanut Butter Bread

Make sure to keep this bread in the fridge. Keep it well wrapped in plastic wrap or an airtight container so it doesn’t dry out.

Can You Freeze This Bread?

Absolutely! Wrap it well and store it in the freezer for up to 3 months.

Tips For The Best Peanut Butter Bread

1. Do not over-mix the batter. Mix it until just smooth, and then pour it into the loaf pan.
2. Make sure to use a standard loaf pan. Using a bigger or smaller pan can really affect how this bakes.

Do You Like Peanut Butter Bread?

If you love peanut butter bread, please share with me your favorite way to eat it in a comment below.

More Healthy Bread Recipes

• Low Carb Sandwich Bread
• Oat Flour Banana Bread
• Easy Popovers
• Low Carb Drop Biscuits
• Irish Soda Bread
• Zucchini Bread

More Peanut Butter Recipes

• Peanut Butter Chicken
• Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
• Peanut Butter Oatmeal
• Peanut Butter Fruit Dip
• Peanut Butter Cookies
• Green Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
• Peanut Sauce
• Peanut Brittle
• Peanut Butter Fat Bombs

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Healthy Peanut Butter Bread Recipe

Recipe updated 3/11/21. See Low Carb version under “Types Of Peanut Butter Bread”, above for the original, flour-free version.

Recipe from the Gracious Pantry® archives, originally posted 10/21/15.