Bread Machine Recipe for Peanut Butter Bread
Last Updated on February 17, 2024 – Originally posted in April of 2016
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I made the Peanut Butter bread. It’s a mild peanut butter taste. The texture is wonderful. It’s great plain or toasted. Peanut Butter bread with Nutella. Wonderful! ~ Rebecca
A visitor on my Facebook page asked for a recipe for peanut butter bread. I’d never even had peanut butter bread, but I just couldn’t get her request out of my mind. So I did some investigation and some baking and come up with this recipe.
The bread is thick and chewy. It has a lovely peanut butter taste and aroma. It is heavenly for breakfast toasted and with some Nutella on top.
Sorry George Washington Carver
According to Wikipedia, George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. By the time Carver published How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption methods of making peanut butter had already been developed.
Here’s another way to incorporate peanut butter into your morning. Check out this chocolate bread recipe. Imagine toasted chocolate bread topped with peanut butter? Yes, it’s as good as it sounds!
Peanut Butter Bread Instructions
This is for a two-pound loaf using the basic or white cycle with medium crust.
Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the bread machine first. With my machine (a Zojirushi bread machine), I add the liquid first.
Make sure you check on the dough after five or ten minutes of kneading. It should be a smooth, round ball. If it’s too dry add liquid a teaspoon at a time until it looks OK. If it looks too wet, add flour a tablespoon at a time until it looks OK.
Peanut Butter Bread Ingredients
Again, this is for a two-pound loaf using the basic or white cycle. Set the crust at medium.
4 cups bread flour
1 1/2 cups water
2/3 cup peanut butter (I used Jif Creamy)
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons salt
3 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
I am obsessed 😍 about peanut butter!!!! So I thought let’s try this in my bread machine 🤔. First I read all the comments and kinda did some changes based on those reviews. I upped the peanut butter to 1cup, add milk few tblsp at time( per peanut butter amt), added 3/4 -1 cup peanut butter chips and 1/4 cup of chocolate chips.
It was good but I would hv liked a MAJOR punch in your face peanut butter flavor in the bread over all. The chips I added helped but the background flavor of peanut butter was Really muted, not what I was expecting.
If I am to make this again I would make some changes Or additions to this recipe. Maybe I would add some peanuts to help with texture, as well as a peanut flavor. … maybe candy them or whip the peanutbutter so it would be light and fluffy so better incorporation. And better all around have the punch in your face peanut butter flavor im really looking for. Idk …I’ll play around with it.
Thanks so much for your thoughts on this! One of the things I plan to try in the future is peanut butter powder. I haven’t investigated yet, but it might be a good addition.
i made this last night & i really like it! the only change i made was using about 1/3 cup vanilla coffee creamer as part of the water. i think i also used more peanut butter, like 1/2 cup at least. thought i overdid it but it turned out great.
Your changes sound wonderful!!
The peanut butter I buy contains only peanuts & salt, so I’m not sure what difference it will make. The brands like Jif & Skippy have more ingredients. Wondering if anyone else has used the “plain” peanut butter.
Great question!
I loved the peanut butter bread! It rose so high I was afraid it’d hit the lid.
I made the Peanut Butter bread. It’s a mild peanut butter taste. The texture is wonderful. It’s great plain or toasted. Peanut Butter bread with Nutella. Wonderful!
I made a 1lb loaf the other day after reading the mixed reviews. This is a great, tastey bread that will now be in rotation at my home. On the weekend we made a few slices into french toast, spread some nutella on it with a chopped banana and you have a great weekend meal.
I’m so glad you liked it!
Bleah. It smelled odd while cooking and tastes odd too. It’s not sweet, just weird. If I didn’t know it had peanut butter in it, I would be puzzled, trying to figure out what the flavor was. I won’t be making this again, but I look forward to trying some of your other recipes!
Sorry, this one didn’t work out. I hope you like the next one that you try. 🙂
I looked up peanut butter bread on your website on a whim and was intrigued. I made the peanut butter bread yesterday. It turned out great! I used crunchy peanut butter and the peanut pieces in the crust was almost like eating roasted peanuts. The peanut flavor was about medium strong but not overwhelming. I’ve had it toasted with butter and jelly so far, but I going to try it on sandwiches and other bread uses too. It is a big winner in my book. It is a keeper.
Thanks so much for the comment. I’m glad you like the recipe.
This was amazing! The bread was delicious and I could taste the peanut butter just fine. I had to scrape the sides when it was kneading and ended up adding 1/4 cup more water to get everything wet. Will definitely make it again.
I made this peanut butter bread ,the only problem is you can not taste the peanut butter. I do I need to increase the peanut butter to 3\4 cup or to a cup.thank you
You could try it and see if it works out. You’ll probably have to adjust other ingredients to compensate for the increase in peanut butter.
My family loves peanut butter, so I couldn’t wait to try this recipe. We were all really disappointed. It looked great but didn’t have much of a peanut butter taste at all. I ended up throwing half of the loaf away & I hardly ever have to throw bread away.
If I increased the peanut butter in the recipe, would something else need to increased?
Thanks for your comment. I’m so sorry that you didn’t like the bread.
Increasing the peanut butter might increase the peanut butter flavor, but it would require a lot of different changes to the ingredients. If you come up with a recipe that you like better, please let me know. I’d love to share it with everyone.
Good morning!! Really need to bake the peanut butter bread today but I’m out of brownies sugar!! Will white sugar work?? No molasses, either!! Thanks!!!
If it were me, I’d wait until you had all the ingredients. But if you go ahead anyway, let me know how it turns out. You never know. 🙂
Just made this bread!! Perfect!! Next loaf adding chocolate chips!! Awesome!!
I love ALL of your recipes!! Always turn out perfectly!! Wondering if chocolate chips would be good added to this recipe? Would you do it , and if so , how much?? Thanks!!
Interesting! That could be good . . . really good! If you do this let me know how it turns out. My chocolate bread recipe uses 2/3 cup of chips.
I only have a 1 pound machine and your recipes are for a 2 pound machine. Can I just cut the ingredients in half My machine is the Zojirushi mini
Hi Len, yes that should work. You’ll probably have to play around with recipe a little though. Here are some hints on converting a bread machine recipe for a different sized machine.
I used this bread to make French toast and topped it with jam instead of syrup. It was peanut butter and jelly French toast! Delicious!!
That sounds fabulous!! Thanks for sharing!
My bread came out WONDERFUL!!
I’m so glad!! Thanks for letting me know.
I’m going to make this bread for my sweet Grandson who loves peanut butter! Do you think there would be a problem adding some raisins to the mixture? Thank you in advance for your reply.
Barbara, I think that would be fine. Let me know how it turns out.
It’s going to be his birthday present. His birthday is on Friday. Thank you for your quick reply.?
Thank you for sharing all your lovely bread recipes. They are so easy and 100% turns out good! I love them
ooooo, I love peanut butter.
This is on my list of breads to make next.