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September 18, 2016

Pumpkin Butter Bananas

  Delicious, quick and easy breakfast, afternoon snack, or dessert. Use pumpkin butter alone, or up the complexity by adding creamy peanut butter. A delicious bite of Fall in under a minute.

My friend and I took a trip to Trader Joe’s yesterday. Overall I was pretty good. I didn’t get any wine, or ice cream, or yummy frozen appetizers. I got apples, some fancy cheese, lentils, and nitrate-free lunch meat. I also got one tub of TJ’s crispy chocolate chip cookies, but only a few of those are for me, I swear! They’re for the boys (ahem). The one treat I did get myself was pumpkin butter.


Delicious, quick and easy breakfast, afternoon snack, or dessert. Use pumpkin butter alone, or up the complexity by adding creamy peanut butter. A delicious bite of Fall in under a minute.

Hey, what’s a trip to Trader Joe’s without at least one treat? Right?

I was good, I avoided the pumpkin cookies, the apple pie cheddar cheese, the other pumpkin cookies, the butter cookies, the chocolates, the special breads; I avoided all of that stuff.

But, I couldn’t resist the pumpkin butter. It’s sweet and spicy and tastes just like Fall. If Fall is sweet and spicy and pumpkin-y, which I think it should be. Don’t you?
 Delicious, quick and easy breakfast, afternoon snack, or dessert. Use pumpkin butter alone, or up the complexity by adding creamy peanut butter. A delicious bite of Fall in under a minute.  
But, since I’m trying not to eat a lot of bread, and spooning it directly out of the jar seems a bit extreme, what should I put it on? A number of options came to mind – bagels with cream cheese (yummy, but no bread for me, remember?); plain doughnuts (yummy, but see previous comment); toasted sweet potato slices (eh, I’m not sure I’m ready for that yet); apples (hmm, could be … and I did buy a big bag of apples at TJ’s too) but I wanted something smoother, not crunchy like apples. Then it came to me, bananas.

Delicious, quick and easy breakfast, afternoon snack, or dessert. Use pumpkin butter alone, or up the complexity by adding creamy peanut butter. A delicious bite of Fall in under a minute.

I wasn’t sure it would work. Would the flavors go together? You don’t see a lot of pumpkin-banana-cream pie recipes, you know? And, bananas have a lot of carbs, but at least they aren’t processed carbs like you find in bread. They’re pretty complex, natural carbs; and bananas are filling.

So, we tried it. Results = YUM! Yummy, yum, yum, yum. Seriously. Yum.

Oh, and want to know what makes it even better? Add a little peanut butter. That’s right, pumpkin peanut butter bananas. Yummiest yum yum around. Perfect in the morning with coffee. Or for an afternoon snack. Maybe even dessert if you want to have something natural and sweet.

Delicious, quick and easy breakfast, afternoon snack, or dessert. Use pumpkin butter alone, or up the complexity by adding creamy peanut butter. A delicious bite of Fall in under a minute.

Also, I won’t tell if you spoon some of the pumpkin butter straight out of the jar. Try a scoop of it alternating with a scoop of peanut butter. How’s that for outrageous?

Delicious, quick and easy breakfast, afternoon snack, or dessert. Use pumpkin butter alone, or up the complexity by adding creamy peanut butter. A delicious bite of Fall in under a minute.

I’m already thinking of other things to use this on, ice cream, vanilla yogurt, maybe even as a glaze for pork. Hmmm. What do you put pumpkin butter on?

Pumpkin Butter Bananas

1 banana, sliced lengthwise
1 tsp pumpkin butter
1 tsp creamy peanut butter (optional)

Mix pumpkin butter and peanut butter (if using) with a butter knife. Spread on cut side of banana. Eat quickly before someone else does! Or, if you feel like being nice, serve.

Serves 1.

Delicious, quick and easy breakfast, afternoon snack, or dessert. Use pumpkin butter alone, or up the complexity by adding creamy peanut butter. A delicious bite of Fall in under a minute.

Filed Under: breakfast, posts, Recipes, snacks Tagged With: banana, food on the go, pumpkin, vegan, vegetarian

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  1. Kristin @ My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia says

    September 21, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    This looks amazing, I need to pick this up on my next TJ run!

  2. Linda @ Life and Linda says

    September 21, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    Great idea. I love peanut butter and banana, so this would be awesome. Love if you share this at our weekly link party, Dishing it & Digging It. The party always starts Sunday.

  3. Heather Robbins says

    September 22, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    I was really surprised at how good it is, but I'm definitely a fan now. Thanks for stopping by!

  4. Heather Robbins says

    September 22, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    The best was mixing peanut butter and the pumpkin butter. So delicious! I will try to stop by on Sunday. Thanks!

  5. Michelle Spilman says

    September 24, 2016 at 2:25 am

    Interesting flavor combinations!
    I'll have to give it a try!

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