We love this Rocky Road Banana Bread recipe as a decadent breakfast bread or an easy dessert bread! It is super customizable and you can add lots of different fun mix ins!
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Why we love this Rocky Road Banana Bread Recipe
With the holiday season in full swing and Valentine's Day right around the corner (I know, I'm getting a little ahead of myself!), I thought I'd whip up a few easy entertaining recipes using a few varieties of the new Hershey's™ Spreads for you guys.
Really, I just wanted an excuse to get creative in the kitchen with this delicious dessert bread recipe! This recipe is a decadent breakfast bread or an easy dessert bread made with Hershey's chocolate spread!
What Makes this Rocky Road Banana Bread Recipe so Special
Since Hershey's™ Spreads sent me six whole jars, I decided to do a little experimenting with a recipe using the chocolate spread.
It's one of my favorite banana bread recipes, just slightly altered to sweeten it up a bit...because everything tastes better with a little chocolate, right?
I gathered a jar of the plain chocolate Hershey's™ Spreads, marshmallows and pecans to turn my banana bread into a Rocky Road banana bread!
How to make our Rocky Road Banana Bread Recipe
This Rocky Road Banana Bread has everything you want in a banana bread!
It is moist and slightly sweet - but the layer of Hershey's™ Spreads, chopped pecans and melted marshmallow add an entirely new dimension!
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoons Hershey's™ Spreads - or other chocolate spread
- 3 ripe bananas
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup applesauce (you can use melted butter or vegetable oil if you don't have applesauce on hand)
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup mini marshmallows
- ½ cup chopped pecans
Directions
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and spray two loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray and then dust them with flour.
In a large bowl, beat together the applesauce, eggs, sugars, vanilla, bananas, salt and baking soda and powder.
Once completely combined, gradually add in the flour.
Pour your batter into your loaf pan until it's about ⅓ of the way full.
Then add your chopped pecans, mini marshmallows and drop the Hershey's™ Spreads evenly over the surface.
Pour more batter over the top until your loaf pan is almost full to the top.
TOP TIP: This bread won't really rise so you can fill it up almost to the top.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
This twist on Banana Bread is so much fun to make!
A special note about this recipe
At the time I originally wrote this post...it was 2013. Hershey's sent me a box of these spreads to make recipes with, and they were in store shelves just about everywhere.
BUT that was A DECADE AGO, and of course, things change! ha! I checked online and it seems that they are still available in most grocery stores. If you can't find Hershey's Chocolate spreads in your local stores, you can substitute it with any other kind of spread!
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Rocky Road Banana Bread Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoons Hershey's™ Spreads - or other chocolate spread
- 3 ripe bananas
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup applesauce you can use melted butter or vegetable oil if you don't have applesauce on hand
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup mini marshmallows
- ½ cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and spray two loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray and dust with flour.
- In a large bowl, beat together applesauce, eggs, sugars, vanilla, bananas, salt and baking soda and powder. Once completely combined, gradually add in the flour.
- Pour your batter into your loaf pan until it's about ⅓ of the way full, then add your chopped pecans, mini marshmallows and drop the Hershey's™ Spreads evenly over the surface.
- Pour more batter over the top until your loaf pan is almost full to the top. This bread won't really rise so you can fill it up almost to the top.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
I created my Hershey's™ Spreads Rocky Road Banana Bread Recipes using Hershey's™ Spreads as part of a sponsored post in 2013. #SpreadPossibilities #hersheysheroes
Tammy
Hershey's Spread makes me smile 🙂 I made some Mudslide Cookies with my jar. I can't wait to try some other goodies, the Banana Bread looks delicious!
Marcie W.
I haven't made this yet but my diet already hates you. Rocky Road is an old favorite of mine!
Donna
I haven't tried the Hershey spread with almonds or the hazelnut, yet, but the chocolate is to die for! YUMMY!
HilLesha
I shouldn't have looked at this post, because now I want this. My poor diet! ~lol~
Stefani
I haven't seen these yet at the store yet but I want to try them. I LOVE chocolate and I could put these to good use. 🙂
April G
Both of those recipes look amazing!!! Thank you for sharing, I'll be trying them for sure over the holidays!
Angela
I just tried the chocolate with almond and it was sooo good. I haven't tried baking with it though. Thanks for the ideas!
Ellen Christian
These are delicious. It's a great treat for the holidays!
Jen
SHUT UP! That dip - OMG. My 2 fave food groups, Chocolate & cheese!
Nicole B
That looks so good! I'm hungry and your pics made my stomach growl. LOL I have got to try that dip with strawberries.
Chelsea
I didn't even know Hershey's HAD spreads- but now that I do I want to get some of the chocolate one to dip in strawberries, yummmm!
Pam
I want to try the chocolate and hazelnut spread! That banana bread looks excellent.
Debra
I didn't know Hershey had spreads, I'll have to look for them next time I'm shopping. The banana bread is my favorite!
Amy Desrosiers
As someone who loves to bake, and cook these look wonderful! I would love to try them out in my kitchen!
Jennifer Quillen
They're a lot of fun to cook with, but even more fun to just eat right out of the jar! ha ha! We are going to make stuffed french toast with them this weekend!
Jennifer Quillen
Yep, they are BRAND NEW! You should start seeing them in stores this month!
Janel
That chocolate dip looks SOO good!!
Tara
Jen, both of those recipes are to die for! I will be giving them a try!
Kayla
So needless to say you've got my sweet tooth craving chocolate! 😀
These two recipes are beyond fantastic and quite innovative. I hope to be able to try one or both in the near future!
Brett
well isn't that dip just the easiest thing in the world!! and delish! we've tried the chocolate spread and its DIVINE.
martha
i want to try some varieties of this. so far i've only found the plain and it's awesome, so i want more!
Melissa
Oh my goodness! I am absolutely drooling right now! It all looks so good!
Amanda
The banana bread looks great! I like to add mini chocolate chips to mine so that looks delicious!
Jodi
Wow! The dip for the strawberries look so delicious, but that rocky road banana bread looks amazing. Did you have to make it look so good? This having high cholesterol thing is going to be incredibly difficult! lol I guess I will be at the gym all the time!
Dawn
I haven't heard of these spreads before. That dip and the strawberries look amazing!!
Yolanda
I opened this with the hubby over my shoulder. He is the baker of the family and told me to forward the post to him! Herseys spread seemed to have made this recipe so easy to make. Thanks for sharing!!!
Jennifer Soltys
Wow you have outdone yourself this time! That looks amazingly delicious!!!
Melissa
Oh man, that sounds delicious. I haven't made banana bread in forever. Now I am craving it!
Ty
This looks absolutely amazing and I bet it taste really good, too!
Courtney Pies
I honestly had no idea that Hershey's had these spreads! That banana bread looks AMAZING!
jennay green
oh my goodness this looks so tastey!!! i will be buying ingredients tomorrow to try this for myself
wen budro
Whaaa....What!!?? Rocky road banana bread!? I never knew such a wondrous thing existed. I will def be making this recipe in the future....yum. Double yum.
Ashley MM
Thanks for the recipe, I have a huge sweet tooth and I'm always looking for yummy new recipes. Love the strawberries on side.
Linda Lamb
I have only tried one of these spreads and I didn't even see it mentioned. After trying the Sea Salted Caramel, I find it hard to try another because I want another jar of caramel. It was just so delicious by itself, I have to get another jar to try in recipes.