Banana Coconut Cookie Bars Recipes

COCONUT BANANA COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. Cream shortening, cashew butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in next 5 ingredients until thoroughly mixed. In a separate bowl, mix unsweetened coconut and flour. Beat into creamed mixture just until combined., Using a medium cookie scoop, drop dough 2 in. apart onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Sprinkle with sweetened coconut. Bake until edges are golden brown, 15-20 minutes (cookies will have cakelike texture). Remove from pans to wire racks to cool. Serve warm or at room temperature.

EASY AND ELEGANT BANANA COCONUT BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 360 F.
• Grease the 9x13 baking dish. Set aside.
• In a medium bowl combine sugar and egg. Mix on low speed with a hand-held mixer for 1 minute. Add melted butter. Mix on low for another 1 minute. Add flour, baking powder, and salt. Knead the dough only until it comes together. Do not over knead it. It should be very soft, pliable and slightly sticky. You can either roll out the dough with the rolling pin and transfer it to a baking dish. Or spread it in the baking dish using your fingers. Bake in the middle of the oven for 12 minutes.
• In the same medium bowl combine coconut flakes, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, and milk. Mix until everything comes together and hold the shape when you squeeze it.
• Peel all bananas, cut in half and split.
• Remove baking dish from oven and place it on a towel. While still warm arrange all banana slices starting from the shorter edge of the baking dish. Lightly press bananas into the dough. Spread the coconut filling evenly, gently pressing on top of the bananas. Sprinkle with the fancy large coconut flakes.
• Bake in the middle of the oven for 23 minutes.
• Remove from oven. Let it cool completely. Cut bars into desired shapes.
• Enjoy!
• Adapted from [Dolce Vita|https://gotovim-doma.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22929]

BANANA COCONUT COOKIE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375° and grease 13 by 9" pan Mix cookie crumbs,butter and sugar until thoroughly blended& reserve 1/3 of mixture.
• Press the remaining mixture into bottom of baking dish.
• Bake for 8- 10 minutes until lightly browned.
• Remove pan from oven and sprinkle cookie base with chocolate chips and return pan to oven until chocolate chips are shiny, spread evenly and set aside.
• In medium saucepan combine condensed milk, banana, coconut and butter.
• Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until thickened.
• Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract and salt.
• Spread over cookie crumb base in pan.
• Sprinkle reserved cookie crumb mixture over filling.
• Return to oven for 8-10 minutes until topping is slightly browned.
• Cool thoroughly and cut into bars.

FROSTED BANANA BARS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in the eggs, bananas and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into creamed mixture just until blended., Transfer to a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack., For frosting, in a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla; beat until smooth. Frost bars.

COCONUT BANANA COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) using the convection setting. Grease 2 cookie sheets with 1 teaspoon coconut oil each.
• Mix coconut flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt together in a small bowl.
• Combine mashed bananas, eggs, 1/3 cup coconut oil, and vanilla extract in a separate bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Slowly add the flour mixture while continuing to mix.
• Drop spoonfuls of cookie dough onto the greased cookie sheets. Flatten cookies using the back of the spoon.
• Bake in the preheated oven until no longer wet, about 35 minutes.

CHEWY COCONUT BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
• In large bowl, cream the shortening, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla extract. Slowly blend in flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix until well blended. Fold in chocolate chips, walnuts and coconut. Spread the mixture evenly in pan.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool before cutting into bars.