Bread

Sweet pull apart bread made with Pillsbury cinnamon rolls, apple pie filling, and topped with a mouth-watering cinnamon icing.

Apple Pie Cinnamon Roll Pull Apart Bread Recipe

Sweet pull apart bread made with Pillsbury cinnamon rolls, apple pie filling, and topped with a mouth-watering cinnamon icing.

Sweet pull apart bread made with Pillsbury cinnamon rolls, apple pie filling, and topped with a mouth-watering cinnamon icing.

Have you ever made pull apart bread before? And I’m not talking about monkey bread. I mean flattened flaky layers of cinnamon rolls layered with decadent fillings and iced on top. I’ve seen several different variations across Pinterest and the internet. Some are filled with chocolate. Others with cinnamon. I saw several with different kinds of pie fillings ????.

This was my first time making a pull apart loaf, and, since I’ve been feeling the urge to do some Fall baking, I decided to make this an apple pie pull apart loaf ????.

Sweet pull apart bread made with Pillsbury cinnamon rolls, apple pie filling, and topped with a mouth-watering cinnamon icing.

The mechanics of this pull apart loaf could not be easier.

All you’ll need to do is grab three easy ingredients (2 cans of cinnamon rolls, apple pie filling, and a little extra cinnamon) and preheat the oven for 350F.

Flatten the cinnamon rolls with your hands, and simply alternate each cinnamon roll with a small spoonful of apple pie filling.

And OMG! The way your kitchen will smell while this is baking!! If you aren’t already in the mood for Fall, I can guarantee that the smell of this loaf wafting through your home will do the trick.

Sweet pull apart bread made with Pillsbury cinnamon rolls, apple pie filling, and topped with a mouth-watering cinnamon icing.

Now, if you wanted to, you could leave out that extra bit of cinnamon and make this a two-ingredient easy-peasy recipe.

But if you’re like me and can’t resist a little extra cinnamon, mix it into the frosting that comes with the cinnamon rolls before you spread it over the warm bread. Ah-mazing. It’s like cinnamon rolls and apple pies and a donut had a baby. It’s basically the best thing ever.

I think I’m finally ready to trade in my summer shades and s’mores if this is what Fall has to offer ????.

Sweet pull apart bread made with Pillsbury cinnamon rolls, apple pie filling, and topped with a mouth-watering cinnamon icing.

Triple the peanut butter in this sweet banana bread with a decadent cookies & cream packed ganache on top!

Peanut Butter Oreo Banana Bread Recipe

Super moist banana bread with triple the peanut butter and an Oreo ganache on top.

Triple the peanut butter in this sweet banana bread with a decadent cookies & cream packed ganache on top!

I don’t really feel like I need to pitch you the merits of peanut butter, chocolate, and banana bread. Because if you’re not already a fanatical lover of all three… you’ve possibly lost your way and landed here on Something Swanky.

Triple the peanut butter in this sweet banana bread with a decadent cookies & cream packed ganache on top!

When I first made this recipe back in 2013, I wasn’t totally sure how to incorporate the Oreos. All I knew was that I wanted to make a peanut butter banana bread with lots and lots of Oreos. So I just tried cramming them all into the batter. And it was…. fine. A little chaotic, not quite perfect, but still pretty okay.

And then about a year later, I made this Scotcheroo Banana Bread with the dreamiest peanut butter-butterscotch ganache on top. And that’s when I realized exactly what I wanted to do with the Oreos in this banana bread recipe.

It’s taken me another 3 long years to finally get around to doing it, but here we are– making a deep, dark chocolate and peanut butter ganache packed to the brim with Oreo crumbles! ????

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The ganache! People! The ganache was the answer all along. They were never quite right in the batter. Somehow they blended in. That signature cookies & cream taste was lost in the flavor of bananas and the texture was way too soft. You just could find the cookies in the bread!

Well, there’s no getting lost in here. We’re smothering those babies in chocolate and spreading them front, top, and center of this recipe. You can’t take a bite without getting a mouthful of cookies and cream!

Triple the peanut butter in this sweet banana bread with a decadent cookies & cream packed ganache on top!

Peanut butter was another flavor that surprisingly got a little lost in the old recipe. It didn’t really have a place to stand out and shine back then. But today’s version of banana bread puts peanut butter right back out in the spotlight. It’s in the bread batter, in the ganache, and drizzled right on top where you can’t possibly miss it.

Chocolate, peanut butter, Oreo, and banana lovers– this bread is for you!

Triple the peanut butter in this sweet banana bread with a decadent cookies & cream packed ganache on top!

Enjoy!

These moist banana bread donuts are baked to perfection, dipped in chocolate, and smothered with coconut and caramel. The banana bread reincarnation of Samoas.

Samoas Banana Bread Donuts Recipe

These moist banana bread donuts are baked to perfection, dipped in chocolate, and smothered with coconut and caramel. The banana bread reincarnation of Samoas.

These moist banana bread donuts are baked to perfection, dipped in chocolate, and smothered with coconut and caramel. The banana bread reincarnation of Samoas.

I adore banana bread.

Seriously. If I were to write another cookbook and it was a one-food-themed topic, it would most certainly be banana bread.

Maybe it’s because of my mom’s banana bread recipe. It’s comforting and nostalgic and one of the cornerstone recipes in my baking repertoire. Or maybe it’s because I always over-buy bananas, and we have at least 4 overripe bananas every week for banana bread baking.

Or maybe it’s just because nothing in the world beats homemade banana bread. Period.

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These moist banana bread donuts are baked to perfection, dipped in chocolate, and smothered with coconut and caramel. The banana bread reincarnation of Samoas.

No matter the reason, my love for banana bread knows no bounds, and I love to eat it in any shape or form.

Particularly in this Samoas Banana Bread Donuts form. Donuts are never, ever wrong. Am I right? Or am I right?!

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As you can see, these aren’t just any banana bread donuts. These are anything but ordinary.

Unless your definition of ordinary includes being dipped in chocolate, smothered in coconut and caramel, and drizzled with more chocolate on top? Because in that case, yes. These Samoas Banana Bread Donuts would be very ordinary ????.

Enjoy!

The best EVER banana bread on Something Swanky

The BEST Banana Bread Ever. Recipe

The best banana bread recipe makes an extra moist and extra delicious loaf thanks to four whole bananas per loaf, brown sugar, and butter. The best EVER banana bread on Something Swanky Ok, you guys. I have to confess something. I could have sworn I had already published this recipe. Like…. truly. I’m not totally confident here that I didn’t post this just last week. I mean, I looked. But I’m kind of losing my mind these days, and I’m afraid I just sort of missed it. So here’s the deal. If this is a repeat, can we all just agree to let it go? Look the other way and just pretend I didn’t already write this post? I mean, I’m hoping I didn’t. But seriously, no promises. Thanks gang.

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Facebook Woes

Oh! That reminds me– speaking of losing my mind… My Facebook page was majorly hacked today. And I am SO SORRY! They have been posting the most horrible spammy posts, and I’m so horrified that my wonderful readers are seeing this stuff pop up in their feed with my name attached to it ????. I spent all day chasing down Facebook humans (they don’t really exist, by the way), trying to delete the nasty posts for as long as I had access to the page, and asking people to report the page as hacked. It feels like digging a tunnel with a spoon… or however that saying goes. You know what I mean. Basically… it stinks. It’s been a crazy long day and nothing actually got fixed where Facebook is concerned. So there’s that. Fingers crossed we get things all sorted out by tomorrow ????????. The best EVER banana bread on Something Swanky

About That Banana Bread…

Moving on. You know what makes all the stupid Facebook hacker stuff go away? This banana bread. Seriously. I’m making a batch tonight, because it’s the best food I could think of to adequately fill the void of a destroyed Facebook page that took 6 painstaking years of my life to fill with 200K followers and a gajillion dessert recipes. Banana bread is the only thing that can help me at this point. The best EVER banana bread on Something Swanky And not just any banana bread. No, my friends. This is magic banana bread. THE BEST banana bread in the whole entire world ever. That’s right. I said it. It’s THE BEST. Never, in all my years of banana bread eating, did I know that a piece of banana bread could actually melt in your mouth. Did you know that?! It can! THIS banana bread can. It has a moist, tender crumb that pairs with the crunch of walnuts in the most beautiful contrast of textures to have ever happened in a bread. In fact, I declare this bread to be so perfect that it doesn’t even need chocolate! It is that good, folks. If you’ve been searching for the perfect banana bread recipe– this is it folks. It doesn’t get better than this!
Fudgy dark chocolate banana bread with a cinnamon swirl through the center and crunchy cinnamon sugar on top!

Birthday Cake Banana Bread Recipe

This banana bread is perfect for a special birthday breakfast or just a fun way to use up those old bananas! Incredibly moist, easy to make, and so much fun.

This banana bread is perfect for a special birthday breakfast or just a fun way to use up those old bananas! Incredibly moist, easy to make, and so much fun.

Hey hey, it’s 2017! So, tell me everything. Are you making New Year resolutions? Are you losing weight? Getting fit? Eating more dessert?

Wait. Just me? ????

Kidding. I actually started my 2017 health “resolutions” last week. After about December 27, I just felt like I couldn’t go another day without getting on track. And by “on track,” I mean Weight Watchers. Always. It’s my favorite go-to (see this post… and this one).

This banana bread is perfect for a special birthday breakfast or just a fun way to use up those old bananas! Incredibly moist, easy to make, and so much fun.

Speaking of Weight Watchers and zero point bananas….

Would you check out this Birthday Cake Banana Bread??

Because I’m sure this is exactly what Weight Watchers had in mind when they made bananas a point-free food ???? ???? ????.

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This banana bread is perfect for a special birthday breakfast or just a fun way to use up those old bananas! Incredibly moist, easy to make, and so much fun.

Tender Crumb?

This is my favorite cake mix banana bread recipe, and I think it is just fabulous. I’ve made Red Velvet Banana Bread and Brownie Banana Bread using this same recipe, and it’s just a super dependable delicious recipe. The bread is moist, full of flavor, and has an incredibly tender crumb.

Hang on a second.

Can we talk about my weird foodie vernacular here? Tender crumb.

Isn’t that the weirdest food terminology you’ve ever heard?? And once you know what it is, there really is no other phrase you can use in place of tender crumb for a food that has a tender crumb. The best way I can describe “tender crumb” is when the crumbs of a cake or bread are so moist that you can use the back of a fork to smush them and pick them up… does that make any sense to anyone but me?

And omg, I’ve said tender crumb so much now that it’s starting to look weird to me. ????

This banana bread is perfect for a special birthday breakfast or just a fun way to use up those old bananas! Incredibly moist, easy to make, and so much fun.

Soooooo…. to get back on topic: this banana bread.

It’s really just so much fun. It’s simple to make since it uses a cake mix (only 4 ingredients total!). Which also means that it has a wonderfully predictable cake-like flavor and fluffy texture. If you have any tired bananas just sitting around, may I suggest this Birthday Cake Banana Bread instead of a smoothie?

I’m just saying… ????