Chocolate Chip-peanut Butter Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (6 ounces)
• 1/4 cup peanut butter (smooth or chunky)
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
• 3 tablespoons butter, in pieces
• 2 tablespoons dry roasted peanuts, chopped fine

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees. grease a 9- x 5-inch loaf pan.
• 2 into a large bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and salt. stir in the chocolate chips make a well in the dry ingredients and set aside.
• 3 in another bowl, with the electric mixer beat the peanut butter, sugar, egg, milk, and vanilla. pour these wet ingredients into the well and lightly stir with a fork until combined.
• 4 combine the crumb topping ingredients in a small bowl. reserve.
• 5 spoon 1/2 of the batter into the prepared pan. smooth the top, then sprinkle with 1/2 of the crumb mixture. spoon over the remaining batter, smoothing it out, and sprinkle with the remaining crumb mixture. with a round bladed knife draw through mixture to marbelize lightly.
• 6 bake 50-55 minutes. tester should come out moist with no uncooked crumbs. cool on a rack 25 minutes then turn out carefully, top side up. when completely cool, wrap in foil and keep a day before serving.