Peanut Butter Banana Scones

Adapted from Sweetpeaskitchen.com

I get daily recipe emails from Sweet Pea's blog and this was one that I immediately knew I had to try.  So, I will admit to adjusting the recipe...I added extra peanut butter to the scone recipe.  I'm glad that I did because I LOVE peanut butter and wanted it to taste strongly of peanut butter, BUT it made it so I couldn't roll them out into scones.  Rather, I had to pour the dough into a pan and let it cook as if it were a bread.  Because of this, I wrote the recipe below as Miss Sweet Pea suggests, so that if you want a definite scone you can follow her recipe.  If you want a stronger peanut butter taste, just add 2 Tablespoons of peanut butter and pour it into a pan to bake like I did!  Either way it will be scrumptious! 

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 Tbs baking powder
• 3 Tbs sugar
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp ground allspice
• 5 Tbs cold butter, cut into ¼-inch cubes
• ½ cup mashed banana
• 2 Tbs butter
• 1 cup heavy cream

For the peanut butter glaze:

• 1/3 cup powdered sugar
• 1 Tbs milk
• 1 Tbs creamy peanut butter

Directions:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with fit the paddle attachment, stir together the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon, allspice and chopped peanuts. Add the butter and toss with a fork to coat with the flour mixture. Mix on medium-low speed until the texture resembles coarse cornmeal, with the butter pieces no larger than small peas.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together the banana, peanut butter and heavy cream. Fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients and form the dough into a ball. With lightly floured hands press dough into a 8-inch round. With a sharp knife or pizza cutter, cut the dough into 8 wedges.
• Place wedges on the prepared baking sheet and bake in preheated oven 12 to 15 minutes or until tops of scones are a light brown. Transfer to a wire rack for at least 10 minutes before serving.
• While the scones are cooling, make peanut butter glaze. In a small bowl whisk together powdered sugar, milk and peanut butter until smooth. Drizzle glaze over scones and serve.