Peanut Butter Cup Banana Bread is full of chocolate and peanut butter. A full 1 1/2 cups of mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are added to the batter and for even more yumminess a peanut butter glaze is drizzled on top.

I got the inspiration for this bread from Gayle at Pumpkin n Spice. My eyeballs about popped out of my head when I saw how delicious her Peanut Butter Cup Banana Bread looked.

Gayle used Reese’s Peanut Butter Spread to make a glaze for her bread. It looked so good, I had to have it in my life too. I couldn’t find any Reeses Peanut Butter Spread at the store so instead I bought Jif Whipped Creamy Peanut Butter. It isn’t really the same thing at all because Gayle described the peanut butter spread as being thicker than peanut butter and obviously whipped peanut butter is much lighter in texture.
I was a little disappointed in how the Jif Whipped Peanut Butter tasted on its own (hardly sweet at all). But once a little sugar was added and it was melted for a glaze, it was super delicious. NOTE: This product is no longer available and I now use a peanut butter glaze for this recipe.

Mini Peanut Butter Cups

The mini peanut butter cups are so much fun to bake with because you don’t even have to chop them up and they melt into wonderful pockets of chocolate and creamy peanut butter. Here’s a link to Reese’s Minis Peanut Butter Cups on Amazon in case you aren’t quite sure what they are. They really...