How To Make Banana Bread Bars
Get both cake and loaf textures in these banana bread bars! It’s made from bananas and sour cream for a fluffy finish, topped with a brown butter frosting.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1½cupssugar
- 1cupsour cream
- ½cupbutter,softened
- 2eggs
- 1¾cupsripe bananas,(3 to 4 bananas)
- 2tspvanilla extract
- 2cupsall purpose flour
- 1tspbaking soda
- ¾tspsalt
- ½cupwalnuts,chopped, optional
For Brown Butter Frosting:
- ½cupbutter
- 4cupspowdered sugar
- 1½tspvanilla extract
- 3tbspmilk
Instructions
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Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease and flour 15×10-inch jelly roll pan. For the bars, in a large bowl, beat together sugar, sour cream, butter, and eggs until creamy. Blend in bananas and vanilla extract.
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Add flour, baking soda, salt, and blend for 1 minute. Stir in walnuts.
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Spread batter evenly into pan. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.
Brown Butter Frosting:
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Heat butter in a large saucepan over medium heat until boiling. Let the butter turn a delicate brown and remove from heat immediately.
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Add powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and milk. Whisk together until smooth. It should be thicker than a glaze but thinner than frosting.
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Using a spatula, spread the brown butter frosting over the warm bars.
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Serve and enjoy.
Nutrition
- Calories: 273.58kcal
- Fat: 10.18g
- Saturated Fat: 6.15g
- Trans Fat: 0.31g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.64g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.53g
- Carbohydrates: 44.63g
- Fiber: 0.71g
- Sugar: 34.54g
- Protein: 2.06g
- Cholesterol: 38.84mg
- Sodium: 137.50mg
- Calcium: 19.84mg
- Potassium: 95.02mg
- Iron: 0.63mg
- Vitamin A: 88.65µg
- Vitamin C: 1.51mg
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