I love single-serving desserts. They’re usually pretty quick and easy, and they give me just enough sweetness to kill the craving without having the leftovers stare me down for the rest of the week. These Peanut Butter Banana Quesadillas are one of my favorite single-serving quick fixes because they’re just so warm, gooey, and delicious. …And I usually have the ingredients on hand! 🥰
And P.S. I’m using the word quesadilla figuratively here. There is no cheese in this dessert “quesadilla.”
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What’s in a Peanut Butter Banana Quesadilla?
Well, peanut butter and sliced bananas, obviously, but there’s also a little sprinkle-sprankle of chocolate chips in there that get all melty and delicious as the quesadilla cooks in the skillet! The banana gets a little soft and extra sweet themselves, then it’s all contrasted by the slightly salty peanut butter and crispy tortilla. It’s really quite perfect.
What Else Can I Add?
This quick dessert is quite flexible, as you can imagine. Here are some other things you can add into your “quesadilla” if you have them on hand:
- Shredded coconut
- Butterscotch chips
- Strawberry or raspberry jam
- Mini marshmallows
- Cinnamon
- Honey (in place of the chocolate chips)
- Almond butter (in place of the peanut butter)
- Ground flaxseed
Peanut Butter Banana Quesadillas
Servings 1Ingredients
- 1 8-inch flour tortilla ($0.30)
- 2 Tbsp peanut butter ($0.14)
- 1/2 medium banana, sliced ($0.11)
- 1 Tbsp chocolate chips ($0.10)
Instructions
- Spread the peanut butter over the surface of the tortilla.
- Thinly slice the banana, then lay the slices over one half of the tortilla. Sprinkle the chocolate chips over the same half of the tortilla. Fold the tortilla to close over the banana and chocolate.
- Cook the quesadilla in a skillet over medium-low heat until it's golden brown and crispy on both sides and the chocolate and banana slices are melty inside.
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How to Make Peanut Butter Banana Quesadillas – Step by Step Photos
You’ll need one 7 or 8-inch flour tortilla for this recipe, ½ a banana (sliced), a couple tablespoons of peanut butter, and about a tablespoon of chocolate chips.
Spread the peanut butter over the surface of the tortilla.
Add the banana slices and chocolate chips over one half of the tortilla, then fold it to close. The peanut butter acts as sort of a glue to hold it together (similar to how cheese holds a regular quesadilla together).
Cook the quesadilla in a skillet over medium heat until it’s golden brown and crispy on both sides and the chocolate and banana are a bit melty on the inside. I don’t add any butter or oil to the skillet when I cook the quesadillas, but you can if you want an extra rich quesadilla.
Slice the quesadilla in half and then enjoy that ooey-gooey goodness while still warm!
This was really good and so easy to make. I added a little bit of Carmel and cinnamon sugar to the top, just for a little extra sweetness.
Very yummy. .my 5 year old is a very picky eater and she loved it thank you so much for sharing
Would these get soggy if sealed in the refridgerator for a week?
Yes, they’re definitely best made fresh.
Im doing the keto diet. How many carbs are in this quesadilla?
Too many carbs for keto.
For calories: Typical tortilla is about 110, 1/2 banana is 55, 2T PB is 200, 1 T choc chips is about 70. So total will be in ballpark of 435 calories.
What’s the nutritional value and calorie count?
I would love to do this for work, with my students.
Since some of the are allergic to peanut butter, would I be able to use Nutella?
Yes, Nutella should work just fine. :)
Do we have the calorie breakdown?
A quesadilla has cheese in it, don’t call something a quesadilla if it’s not a tortilla and cheese .
Other than that this Peanutbutter and Banana snack is nice.
Don’t be a butthurt douche. Are you the boss of food?
This is an absolutely wonderful recipe, I love it so much!
Also, for anyone that is wondering this dish is approximately 273 calories but it’s all dependent on the kind of tortilla and the kind of chocolate chips you use.
I have been eating these with nutella instead of chocolate chips all week. Best snack!
OMG!!! Thank you so much, it’s sooo delicious 😊
How many calories?
Love trying new recipes. Especially with grandkids
I used Nutella instead of chocolate chips and omg amazing!
Is it wrong that I can’t quit thinking about these? If it is, I don’t want to be right. YUMMY IN MY TUMMY!
These are rad, but they technically can’t be called ‘quesadillas’ because there isn’t any cheese in this recipe; the word in Spanish, ‘queso’, is why it is there in the food’s name, ‘quesadilla.’
These look so good and easy! I love bananas and chocolate. I added them to a list of awesome no sandwich lunch ideas at trainedbytoddlers.com. Can’t wait to try out some more of your recipes!
oh holy moly…5 hands down. Don’t know why I didn’t put this together sooner. Beth–you are a genius. I made it right on my panini machine. Perfection!
To all those asking about calorie counts…. it will vary based on the ingredients YOU use… plug them into an app like myfitnesspal etc and you are good to go!
does anyone know how many calores this is?
If you look at the calories on what you’re using for all of these you can figure it out
Awesome healthy-ish snack. Had it for lunch and it filled me up! Would make again.
I made these to go, wrap-style, in a sandwich grill and I couldn’t be happier. I just wrapped them up in aluminium foil and threw them in my handbag – perfect for on-the-go lunch while running to catch a bus from point A to B. I also like to put a little cinnamon and ground cardamom in them for an added kick! :)
Do you use oil to cook your quesadillas?
I like to do mine in a dry non-stick skillet. It makes the outside crispy without being greasy. :)
No queso for this “quesadilla”?!?!?!
I will replace the peanut butter with sunflower butter and try this for an afternoon snack for my son. Yummy can’t wait to see the look on his face.
Made it for mid morning snack before my run! Loved it! I used 1Tbsp of peanut butter, 1 teaspoon of chocolate chips, 1/4 of banana to save on calories :)
Any idea how well these hold up over night? I want to make them for a group meeting tomorrow but will only have access to a stove tonight! I don’t want the tortilla to get soggy or for it to taste bad somehow.
Hmm, well, I do think they will get soggy in the fridge. Tortillas don’t seem to hold their crispness during storage.
This recipe looks so good, that my mouth is WATERING! Instead of using wheat flour tortillas, is it possible that I can use regular tortillas-because I don’t like the texture of wheat flour tortillas.
Yes, absolutely. :)
Can also be baked in toaster oven
All the guests I have served this to have loved this! Definitely a recipe that is going in the keeper recipe book. The best part besides tasting so good, they are super easy to make!!! On one half I spread Nutella and on the other half I spread peanut butter. I put sliced bananas and sliced strawberries on the inside and serve it with a small scoop of ice cream.
These are great!!
How many calories in these? Please and thank you :)
About 450, give or take some depending on differences in brands.
Just made these and added a drizzle of honey and sprinkle of cinnamon… They were incredibly delicious–gooey, sweet, crunchy, it was the perfect dessert!
Anyone know the calorie count on these??? Dieting here, but really wanna try!! Help?
Just whipped these up on the fly and they are delicious! It’s a great snack for when you’re in a I-want-something-warm-and-sweet-and-really-unhealthy kind of mood. I put on a drizzle of all-natural honey I got from the local bee-keeper and it was a perfect quartet of flavour–honey, peanut butter, chocolate, and banana. Goes great with a glass of milk :) Thanks so much. Loved them!
Found this recipe on pinterest and made it for dinner tonight and it was DELICIOUS! Something about the warm, melty peanut butter and chocolate chips was great. And I added toffee chips, because why not. So good! Will be made again (and again and again..). Thanks!
Just a head’s up. I was cruising Pinterest today and found a pin that links to this:
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The pictures show your name/logo, but I couldn’t find anywhere else on the site where you get rightful credit.
Yours truly,
Loyal follower :)
ps, I tried to email you this info on the general Contact Me page, but I got an error, so pardon if you get it twice.
Thank you! :)
does it have to be whole wheat tortillas? or can I use regular flour tortillas?
Yep, you can definitely use regular flour tortillas. :)
You totally stole this idea from Buffy the vampire slayer S 6 E 10 Wrecked. Just saying.
Hahaha, I’ve never seen it, but will openly admit that the banana/PB/chocolate combo is not a new idea! It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s been done before :)
As somebody who doesn’t get on with bananas, I might sub it with tofu. Thanks for the recipe.
Just made these (and now wanting to make more) with peanut butter, bananas, and Nutella. Delish!! They are like the super easy version of crepes!
This looks so good! Now my mind is racing through all the different variations you could do with this idea!
i used to make these as a snack all the time after i got home from night classes in grad school. brings back memories! sometimes i would also add a handful of mini marshmallows or a sprinkling of cinnamon. yum!
I just had one of these for dinner/dessert! :)
I made these tonight with strawberries because I didn’t have any bananas and added a bit of powdered sugar on top and they came out soooooo good! Thanks for the recipe, I would have never thought to make a dessert quesadilla on my own. YUMMY in my tummy! <3
My husband and I have made this before with Nutella, peanut butter, and bananas. MMMM!!
Oh man, I bet these would be SOOO good with a smear of marshmallow fluff — like a peanut butter and banana s’more. I’m so gonna have to try that.
These would totally hit the spot! Love PB and banana combo!
I made one for breakfast this morning, and I managed to burn the peanut butter in the process of crisping the tortilla! I had it on medium heat, so I figured the heat was just too high. I tried it again with a 2nd quesadilla, this time on low heat, and still burned the peanut butter- before the tortilla got brown at all! Any idea what my issue could be? I have an electric stove.
If you’re using peanut butter with sugar added, the sugar could be burning – natural peanut butter won’t have that, it’ll just be peanuts, oil, and maybe salt.
Hmm, I’m confused. So your peanut butter was touching the skillet and burning, right? Try only spreading it only to about a half inch of the edge of the tortilla so that it doesn’t spill out onto the skillet and burn. Otherwise, there should only be enough heat on the skillet to slightly warm the contents of the quesadilla. If the tortilla on the outside isn’t even brown yet, the contents inside the tortilla shouldn’t even be close to burning.
I’m using natural peanut butter – Trader Joe’s brand, creamy & salted. It did not spill out of the tortilla into the pan. When I was grilling it, it was browning very slowly. I peeled back the tortilla to see how the insides were doing (if they were cooking/melting), but the peanut butter did not appear gooey at all, but rather gummy and burnt looking. (If you’ve ever seen burnt peanut butter, you know the look I’m describing. :) ) It tasted ok, but I missed the gooeyness I was expecting from the melted peanut butter. Another note: I removed the chocolate chips since I made this for breakfast, and added a sprinkle of cinnamon instead. Could that have done it? Maybe eliminating the chocolate chips took out a lot of the melted gooey moisture?
That is so strange! I guess I’ve never seen peanut butter burn before. Hmmm… was the peanut butter well mixed? I wonder if not having enough oil mixed into the PB could have something to do with it. I bet the oil from the choc chips does help distribute the heat a bit, too. :(
I’m so making this!
By dessert, you obviously meant this morning’s breakfast.
These look amazing! Forget dessert, these are my breakfast tomorrow :)
These look delicious! My breakfast for tomorrow is sorted. :)
So easy! These look fab!
Reminds me very much of my grilled peanutbutter sandwiches. Same concept as a grilled cheese, only with peanut butter. This looks pretty satisfying!
These are my absolute favorite! I always have them for breakfast…orrrr a midnight snack ;)
O.M.G.!!!
these look so amazing! i’ve been rolling up pb and mashed up nanners in a tortilla as a roll-up snack or bfast (usually adding in some walnuts or craisins or something), but i NEVER would have thought of choco chips and then melting the sucker dilla style…this is epic! thanks so much beth!
Easy and simple! So doing this tonight! Thanks Beth! :-)
I like sweet food in the mornings, so I’m probably going to have this for breakfast tomorrow. This would be awesome with Nutella too!
Brilliant! My favorite trifecta of flavors: banana, peanut butter, and chocolate.
Gotta try these!