Banana Bread Bars With Brown Butter Frosting Recipes

BANANA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 15X10 jellyroll baking pan (see recipe notes for 9x13 pan).
• In a large bowl, cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar until light and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes. Beat in the eggs, mashed bananas and vanilla until well combined. Add flour, baking soda and salt; mix into creamed mixture until just blended.
• Pour batter into prepared baking pan. Bake 20-25 minutes, rotating pan 1/2 through baking. Bars are done when toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.

BANANA BREAD BARS WITH BROWN BUTTER FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 15x10-inch jelly roll pan.
• Beat white sugar, sour cream, 1/2 cup softened butter, and eggs in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in bananas and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract. Add flour, baking soda, and salt; mix for 1 minute. Stir walnuts into batter until evenly incorporated. Spread batter in prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden, about 27 minutes. Cool.
• Melt 1/2 cup butter in a large saucepan over medium heat until bubbling and golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Whisk confectioners' sugar, milk, and vanilla extract into melted butter until a smooth frosting consistency is reached. Spread frosting over cooled banana bars.

BANANA BREAD BARS WITH BROWN BUTTER FROSTING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375 degrees.
• Grease and flour a 15x18 jelly roll pan (or a cookie sheet with sides).
• In a large bowl, beat together sugar, sour cream, butter and eggs until creamy.
• Blend in bananas and vanilla.
• Add flour, baking soda and salt and blend for one minute. Stir in nuts.
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• Spread batter evenly into pan.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
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• Frosting
• Heat butter in a large saucepan over medium heat until boiling.
• Let butter turn a delicate brown and remove from heat immediately.
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• Add powdered sugar, vanilla and milk. Whisk together until smooth.
• It will be thicker than a glaze but thinner than a frosting.
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• Spread on warm bars with spatula.
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• Note: I began making the frosting when the bars only had about 10 minutes left to bake. You do not want to let the frosting sit too long before spreading on the bars or it will make it very difficult to spread. If this happens, reheat the frosting in the microwave for a short amount of time to make it thinner and spread better.

SOUR CREAM BANANA BARS WITH BROWN BUTTER FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Grease and flour a 15-1/2 x 10-1/2 x 1 inch jelly roll pan.
• In bowl of a stand mixer combine sugar, sour cream, butter and eggs on low speed for 1 minute; scrape the sides of the bowl once or twice to ensure that the ingredients are all combined.
• Add the bananas and vanilla and beat for 30 seconds on low speed.
• Add the flour, salt and baking soda and beat until combined; medium speed, scraping bowl when necessary, for about 1 minute.
• Fold in the nuts, if desired.
• Spread dough in prepared pan; use a spatula to get the dough evenly spread on the pan.
• Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until light brown.
• Cool in the pan.
• Prepare the frosting by heating the butter in a medium size saucepan over medium heat until slightly frothy and just brown but not burned; remove from heat.
• Mix in the powdered sugar, vanilla and milk; whisk until smooth and fluffy.
• Spread frosting on cooled cake.
• Cut into 2 x 2 inch bars.

MONKEY BARS -- BANANA BARS WITH BROWNED BUTTER FROSTING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375 degrees. Grease and flour a 10×15 jelly roll pan. Beat first four ingredients until creamy. Blend in bananas and vanilla until incorporated. Add dry ingredients and blend one minute. Sitr in nuts and spread in pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes -until light brown and center springs back to the touch (don't over bake). Cool and frost with Browned Butter Frosting.
• For the frosting: 1/2 cup butter.
• 2 cups powdered sugar.
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla.
• 3 tablespoons milk.
• Heat butter in saucepan over medium heat past the melting point until it boils and turns a delicate brown.Remove from the heat and immediately wisk in the remaining ingredients. This should make a thick glaze. Using a spatula smooth over the top of the Monkey Bars immediately. Work quickly, it hardens fast!