Protein Peanut Butter Bread – Healthy, Loaded, Amazing

Loaded Protein Peanut Butter Bread with white chocolate chips, pretzels and roasted peanuts to satisfy your cravings. Healthy peanut butter loaf uses flavored peanut butter and PB powder and is sweetened with protein powder!

This bread is definitely for all of you who love a good peanut butter recipe. Its sweet and salty and has all the peanut butter flavor you want, without the overload of fat and calories.

Inspiration for the flavor combination came from American Dream Nut Butter Pot of Gold PB (its sweet cream and caramel flavored, and has pretzels, white chocolate chips, caramel chips and roasted peanuts inside); Clearly a loaded peanut butter to say the least.

Just simple ingredients here outside of that, so this recipe is super easy to recreate.

Ingredients for this Protein Peanut Butter Bread

This protein peanut butter bread is made with nutritious ingredients like whole wheat pastry flour, peanut butter powder and Greek yogurt, and also uses a high-protein peanut butter.

Here’s the ingredients you need:

• Vanilla Protein Powder; This is the source of protein and sweetness; I use Quest Nutrition Vanilla here since it’s stevia-sweetened and bakes well.
• Unflavored Protein Powder to replace some of the flour (and carbs) in the recipe. I used a whey-casein blend from Quest Nutrition.
• Peanut Butter Powder, also known as Powdered Peanut Butter. I recommend Lakanto for a sugar free version (the code HAYLSKITCHEN gives you a discount). Or you could use the one from PbFit or PB2.
• Sweetened flavored Peanut Butter; from American Dream Nut Butter. It’s lower fat and higher protein than normal, and just amazing (code HAYLSKITCHEN gives you a discount on these).
  ADNB has other amazing flavors that would work well here too.
• Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
• Some Cocout Flour
• Non-fat Greek Yogurt for a high protein low fat loaf!
• Unsweetened Applesauce
• Almond Milk
• Eggs
• Baking Powder
• Vanilla Extract

And for mix-ins in this Peanut Butter Loaf:

• Sugar free White Chocolate Chips; I use the ones from Lily’s.
• Chopped Peanuts
• Crushed Pretzel Sticks

How to make perfect Peanut Butter Loaf using Protein Powder

This protein powder peanut butter loaf is quite easy, but here’s some tips to make sure they turn out perfect!

1. Whisk all the dry ingredients together: whole wheat pastry and coconut flour, vanilla and unflavored protein powder, baking powder

2. Whisk all the wet ingredients: applesauce, Greek yogurt, milk, peanut butter, eggs and vanilla.
   Use room temperature eggs, yogurt and milk so the wet ingredients and dry ingredients can mix well.

3. Add dry ingredients to wet, mix; gently fold the dry mix into the wet to combine them.
   Don’t overmix the batter!
   If you over-mix it, the protein powder – will make it tough, dense and gummy.

4. Taste the batter and see if you need some extra sweetener. I’d recommend using stevia powder to maintain the consistency of the batter and have low sugar PB bread.

5. Add most of the mix-ins (white chocolate chips, pretzels, peanuts) and fold.

6. Pour batter into loaf pan lined with parchment paper; Add remaining mix-ins on top.

7. Bake for 55-60 minutes until a tester inserted comes out clean.

8. Cool in pan for a bit, then transfer to cooling rack.

How to Store Healthy Peanut Butter Loaf

Healthy peanut butter loaf can be stored at room temperature for about 2 days or in the fridge for 1 week in an airtight container.

To freeze the healthy protein peanut butter bread, cut it into slices, wrap each slice in plastic wrap, and place them in a freezer-safe zipper bag.
You can even store the whole loaf itself – be sure to let it thaw before you serve.

Alternatives for Healthy Peanut Butter Bread

I made this healthy peanut butter bread with the ingredients and brands recommended, but here’s some alternatives to try. I haven’t testing them all, so I can’t say how your loaf might turn out.

• Whole Wheat Pastry Flour: Use All purpose flour or 1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour in the same amount by weight not cups.
• Unflavored Protein Powder: More flour, but also reduce the milk to about 4 Tbsp.
• Greek Yogurt: Use Coconut Yogurt
• Applesauce: Pumpkin puree can go here
• Almond Milk: Any other milk works
• Flavored Peanut Butter: Regular peanut butter

More High Protein Loaf Recipes to Try

• 100 Calorie Chocolate Protein Banana Bread
• Fat Free Protein Pumpkin Bread
• Protein Strawberry Bread
• Blueberry Protein Pancake Bread
• Protein Sweet Potato Bread
• Protein Cookie Dough Bread
• Protein Oreo Bread
• Chocolate Protein Zucchini Bread

Protein Peanut Butter Bread – Healthy, Loaded, Amazing

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Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time55 minutes mins

Total Time1 hour hr 10 minutes mins

Servings: 12 slices, ⅔” thick

Calories: 154kcal

Course: Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Loaded Protein Peanut Butter Bread with white chocolate chips, pretzels and roasted peanuts to satisfy your cravings. Healthy peanut butter loaf uses flavored peanut butter and PB powder and is sweetened with protein powder!

Ingredients

• 1 cup Whole Wheat Pastry Flour, 120g
• ½ cup Vanilla Protein Powder, 45g, Whey-casein
• ⅓ cup Unflavored Protein Powder, 30g, Whey-casein
• ⅓ cup Peanut Butter Powder, 32g
• ¼ cup Coconut Flour, 28g
• 1 tablespoon Baking Powder
• ½ cup + 2 Tbsp Unsweetened Applesauce, 150g
• ¾ cup Non-fat Greek Yogurt, 168g
• ⅓ cup Unsweetened Almond Milk, 80ml
• ¼ cup Peanut Butter, 56g, Sweet Caramel flavor recommended below
• 2 Eggs
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Mix-Ins:

• 2 tablespoon White Chocolate Chips, 28g, Sugar free recommended
• 1 tablespoon Chopped Roasted Peanuts, 14g
• 1 oz Crushed Pretzels, 28g

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350°F and line an 8½” x 4½” loaf pan with parchment paper.
• In a bowl, mix whole wheat pastry flour, vanilla protein powder, unflavored protein powder, peanut butter powder, coconut flour and baking powder.
• In a large bowl, whisk together applesauce, yogurt, almond milk, peanut butter, eggs and vanilla.
• Add dry mix to wet, and gently fold until combined.

  DO NOT OVER-MIX or protein powder and gluten from wheat flour will make the bread dense.
• Add in most of the white chocolate chips, crushed pretzels and peanuts, reserving a few for the top.

  Gently fold until combined; Do not over-mix.
• Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. Top with remaining mix-ins.
• Bake for 55-60 minutes. A toothpick inserted into center should come out dry.
• Cool for 15 minutes, then remove from pan and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, about 30 minutes and cut into slices.

Notes

• Nutrition details are calculated using products recommended below.
• See post for alternate ingredients, tips and storage options.

Product Recommendations:

• Quest Nutrition Vanilla Whey-Casein Protein Powder
• Quest Nutrition Multi-purpose Mix (Unflavored) Whey-Casein Protein Powder
• American Dream Nut Butter Peanut Butter
  • Use code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount off your order
• Lily’s White Chocolate Baking Chips

Nutrition:

• Servings: 12 slices, ⅔” thick | Serving size: 1 slice
• Calories: 154kcal
• Fat: 5.3g | Saturated fat: 1.4g
• Carbohydrates: 17.2g | Fiber: 4.1g | Sugar: 2.8g
• Protein: 12.2g