Description
A great energy boosting loaf to help give you that ‘go’ in the morning. This is a hybrid of banana bread and an oatmeal cookie. It’s extremely filling. Pair this with a smoothie for a delish breakfast or snack.
Ingredients
- 2 cups oats
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 ½ cups milk
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 6 tablespoons honey
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 3 ripe bananas, mashed
- ¼ cup milk chocolate chips
- ¼ cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour, or as needed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease an 8-inch square baking pan.
- Combine oats
- 1 cup flour
- brown sugar
- cinnamon
- salt
- and baking powder together in a bowl. Beat milk
- applesauce
- honey
- peanut butter
- and vanilla extract together in a large bowl until smooth; add eggs and mix well. Mix oats mixture into milk mixture until batter is just combined; stir in bananas. Pour 1/2 of the batter into the prepared baking pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until partially cooked
- about 5 minutes. Remove pan from oven and cool completely.
- Mix milk chocolate chips
- semisweet chocolate chips
- and 1 teaspoon flour together in a bowl until chips are coated in flour
- adding more flour if needed. Spread coated chips over the cooled loaf and top with remaining batter.
- Bake in the oven until loaf is cooked through and lightly browned on top
- 35 to 45 minutes.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 40 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins
Servings: 12