My eternal love for this traditional flavor pairing had me adding chocolate sauce to a peanut butter bread. Couldn’t help it.
Quick breads (what I call loaf cakes) tend to be very sweet because they don’t have the rusticity of bread.
This one is a notable compromise between a cake and bread, not too sweet, with a definite rugged texture, perfect for toast with butter or as I made it, fresh with a chocolate sauce that is in itself a fantastic recipe also. You can use it as a frosting if you let it cool down completely or pop it in the fridge for a while.
Or make sandwiches with banana slices and the chocolate sauce spread on the bread. Or eat it one slice at a time with a cup of coffee.
The recipe is simple, though I sometimes add buckwheat flour instead of regular all-purpose. I like the earthy undertones it delivers and, we all know by now, how amazing buckwheat is with chocolate, as shown by this amazing chocolate cake.
The sauce is dead easy to make and has that unmistakable sheen and lusciousness that comes from adding corn syrup. For me, it was a one-way trip. I tend to add it to most chocolate sauces and frostings. Besides the texture, it makes them keep better, even after a few days the frostings stay chewier, not dry. A very big plus in my book.
It keeps really well for a few days well wrapped in plastic. Though I wonder how it will last so long…
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Ingredients
For the peanut butter bread:
- 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
- ½ cup buckwheat flour
- 1 Tbs baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup butter (at room tº)
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- ¾ cup peanut butter
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup milk
For the chocolate sauce:
- ½ cup whipping cream
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 2 Tbs light corn syrup
- 225 g semisweet chocolate (chopped)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
For the peanut butter bread:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease a 9×5 inch loaf pan.
- Beat butter until creamy, add both sugar gradually beating all the time, until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Add egg and beat for a minute. Then add peanut butter and vanilla. Mix well.
- Add both flours, baking powder and salt in 3 additions alternating with milk in 2 additions.
- Pour into pan and bake for about 40 minutes, or until a tester comes out dry.
- Let cool on wire rack and serve with sauce.
For the chocolate sauce:
- Put chocolate and vanilla in a bowl.
- Heat cream, butter and corn syrup over medium heat and bring it to a simmer.
- Add this hot mixture over the chocolate, wait 2 minutes and start mixing it with a whisk until it’s smooth and shiny.
Peanut butter bread making and eat with the chocolate sauce and also we make Chocolate toast after pudding the chocolate really awesome in taste.
The idea of peanut butter bread with chocolate sounds delicious. I followed your recipe for making the peanut butter and it came our brilliant. It was a happy moment for me and the taste was amazing. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much! Have a great week!
I'm up for anything peanut butter. This cake looks perfectly moist and tender!
Do you soak the buckwheat flour overnight in water? I've read elsewhere that one should do that with heartier flours.
No. Maybe if you used the whole grain it would need to be soaked, but not a finely ground flour.
Holy Mollyyyy…. Im so going to try this!
Absolutely love your blog
Such a GORGEOUS loaf, Paula! And your photos with the dripping chocolate are incredible! I need to take food styling lessons from you. Hope you had a terrific Christmas and are getting settled in your new home. xoxo
Just when I think you couldn't get any busier you sign up for a course and sell your house – I don't know how you fit it in and still have the time to bake 🙂 This bread looks gorgeous… Yum!!
WOW!!
What a clever idea it look so delicious!
I would love some of this instead of dinner 🙂
What a unique bread – this sounds great!
You are moving. And working. And taking a class. And blogging. Paula, you need to relax. Take a chair and cup of tea and a giant slice of this peanut butter bread. No, instead take some chocolate sauce-like a lot of it- and a small slice of bread- and enjoy!