Banana-Peanut Butter Fritters baked in the oven are like mini stuffed biscuits and they are sure to be a family favorite. Made with refrigerated biscuit dough, they are super easy to make and only a few ingredients are required.
Now that my kids are teenagers (15 and 18) it seems half my day is spent trying to keep tabs on what they are doing. If you have teenagers I’m sure you do the same. “Where are you going?” “When will you be back?” “Who else is going?” “Who is driving?” “Is your phone charged so you can answer my texts?”
It’s never-ending.
Luckily my kids have really great friends which helps lessen my worries, but even still I like to keep my kids home under my watchful eye as much as possible. And you know teenagers. They just want to be around their friends as much as possible.
So I have no choice but to lure their friends to our house. That is best done with food. Teenagers are ALWAYS hungry.
Make yummy food to share with your kid’s friends and before you know it, your kids will be getting stopped in the hallway at school. “Hey, your mom making anything today?”
It totally works.
And if you can think of something they can help make, even better.
These Banana-Peanut Butter Fritters are super fun to make. No need to search through drawers for a rolling pin or cookie cutter either!
Use a mini Coca-Cola can to roll out some refrigerated biscuit dough, then cut out circles with the bottom of the can. As a bonus you get to give your kids a lesson about being resourceful while doing it.
Next, top half the circles of dough with a slice of banana and half with a dab of peanut butter.
Sandwich them together, pinch the sides together and bake until lightly browned.
Ten minutes in the oven and you will have a treat the neighbor’s kids will be beating down your door to get. Drizzle them with melted chocolate and bacon pieces if you want to serve them Elvis-style. They pair perfectly with a cold Coca-Cola!
Banana-Peanut Butter Fritters
Ingredients
- 1 (10-ounce) can refrigerated biscuits, 5 large biscuits
- 1 banana, sliced into ¼ to ½-inch slices
- ½ cup peanut butter
- 1 cup chocolate chips, melted in microwave (optional)
- 1 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Using a mini Coca-Cola can, roll each biscuit out and cut circles using the bottom of the can. You should be able to cut at least 6 from each biscuit.
- Place a banana slice on half of the pieces of dough.
- Spread about 1 teaspoon of peanut butter on the pieces without banana.
- For each fritter, sandwich a peanut butter piece on top of a banana piece and pinch the pieces of dough together around the circumference, stretching the dough some if necessary. Note: the pieces of dough will try their best to separate while they bake so it helps to tuck the seam part underneath as much as possible.
- Place on a lightly greased baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
- If desired, drizzle with melted chocolate and sprinkle with bacon.
This is a great “project” for the kids, and these look delicious! I love the pb-banana combo!
I cannot wait to try. Looks very easy an fun.
Lovely photos! You rarely see the after pics (we food bloggers stick to the before and during) and lovely to see happy eaters (I want to be them and be eating these fritters)
so easy and so delicious, I also like that I found out the many usage a can of cola can have 🙂
I think I’ll be the same and will be trying to keep tabs on my kiddos once they reach the teenager years too – eeks. These fritters are so fun! My four year old is always hungry too and would love these! 🙂
You are definitely right Christin, “teenagers are ALWAYS hungry” indeed! I know as I have a 16 yr old! And I know she would love these! What a brilliant idea to take a regular PB and banana sandwich to the next level!
These look delicious and such an awesome idea to stuff banana & peanut butter and make fritters!! Pinned!
These are so cute and they look delicious!
I love your idea for snack. I bet your children and their friends loved these little, cute and delicious fritters 😉
I love this idea for a snack. So easy and fun to make. I have teenagers too and can completely relate. By having great snacks at your house keeps the kids close.
This idea is totally genius! What a great mom you are!
I can hardly stand how genius these fritters are!! I love the banana/pb filling—totally Elvis-worthy and it looks like your kids and their friends totally adored them. 🙂
What an easy and yummy snack! 🙂
I like your teen strategy Christin, we do some of that here for ours. Looks like Banana Peanut Butter Fritters were a a great lure. 🙂 I need to whip up a batch. The mini Cokes are so cute!
How simple and delicious! Pics of the girls enjoying them is perfect!
Peanut Butter and Banana is one of my ultimate favorite food combinations.
SO fun! Love banana and peanut butter!
These fritters sound delicious, Christin! I can only imagine how tasty these must be with peanut butter and bananas. And I love how easy these are to whip up, too!
These fritters are so fun!
haha my husband and I always joke that we’ll have to find ways to try to get our kids’ friends to come to our house so we can keep an eye on everyone …. that is when we actually have kids 🙂
Christin, what a great idea! I love fritters! These look and sound absolutely delicious…I can practically taste them!