Bananas Foster Bread with Cinnamon Butter Rum Glaze

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Last week we celebrated National Banana Bread Day. And national pancake day... and tortilla day... margarita day... pistachio day and kahlua day. Oh and then we celebrated pancake day again this week (thanks, IHOP). It seems that every food has its own holiday lately. Tomorrow is banana cream pie day. So being late to banana bread day, and early to banana cream pie day, I'll stick to the banana theme and combine two familiar banana desserts - bananas foster and banana bread.

Peanut Butter Glazed Banana Bread

Fall is fast approaching and for me that means the smell of fallen leaves, wood stoves, boots, sweaters and fall foods. One of those fall foods is quick bread... banana, pumpkin, apple, zucchini, no matter the flavor, it's a fall staple.

Since I went a little overboard in buying bananas last week, I had a bunch of brown bananas that needed to be put to good use. I found this recipe for banana bread in a past issue of Cooking Light. I was intrigued by the peanut butter banana combination and the idea of glazing a quick bread. I had to substitute a few of the ingredients due to what I had on hand in the kitchen, so I'm sad to say the bread probably isn't as light as the original.

White Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Cookies

I first heard of White Chocolate Wonderful peanut butter by Peanut Butter & Co. by reading other food blogs. This is usually how I find out about fun food products. I searched high and low at my local grocery stores but was only able to find their Dark Chocolate Dreams peanut butter. On a trip to Baltimore a few weekends ago, I stumbled into a Whole Foods (we don't have these where I'm from), and found myself in the peanut butter aisle. I couldn't believe my eyes... there it was, White Chocolate Wonderful. It was almost as if I was staring at a pink sparkly unicorn basking under a rainbow with a leprechaun and the Easter Bunny. Even more astonishing? It was only $4.99! I know most of you are reading this saying, "who pays $4.99 for peanut butter?" Well, a girl who clearly has no conscience when it comes to finances. Plus, I paid close to $6 for the Dark Chocolate Dreams at my local grocery store, so this seemed like a steal. I snatched up a jar and ran to the checkout counter like I had just won the lottery.

I knew exactly what to do with the peanut butter. After eating half the jar by the spoonful (don't worry, I didn't double dip, I just went through about 10 spoons), I saved the other half for these cookies... White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies. As I was mixing them I had an even better idea... banana! Spying the ripe bananas across the kitchen, I grabbed one and threw it in the mixer (I peeled it first, of course), all the while my mom was watching me wondering how and when she had given birth to such a crazed lunatic. I assured her the banana was for the best. And why stop there? Next, I threw in some cinnamon. Again, my mom shook her head and thought for sure I had just ruined a batch of perfectly good cookies. Wrong. So, wrong.