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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Frosted Banana Bars

Many of you have probably had or even tried bars similar to these ones, but you know what, well, you can never have to many banana bars or be reminded of making them again. Cause lets be honest, we all have those brown bananas sitting on our counter tops just screaming at us to make these delicious bars or even this delicious bread.

Recipe:
For the Bars:
1/2 cup butter (softened)
2 cups Sugar
3 eggs
1-1/2 cup mashed banana (about 3 ripe bananas)
1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
2 cups All Purpose Flour
1 tsp. baking soda
Pinch of salt

For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
1 (8oz) pkg. of cream cheese
1/2 cup butter (1 stick softened)
4 cups Powdered Sugar
2 tsp. Vanilla Extract

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Mix in the eggs, bananas, and vanilla. Combine the flour, salt, and baking soda and stir into the creamed mixture just until blended.  Now take a greased (I like to use Bakers Joy for this dish) 15-inch x 10-inch x 1-inch jelly roll pan and lightly sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on to the bottom of the greased pan. Now pour the batter onto the pan and Bake @ *350 for 18-22 minutes. 

For the Frosting, cream together the cream cheese and butter. Slowly mix in the powdered sugar and vanilla. Spread over the cooled bars and serve.  Makes about 3 dozen bars.

(Recipe Source: The Sister's Cafe)



8 comments:

  1. I've honestly never made Banana bars! But I will now! YUMMO : )

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  2. Muriel I love your blog!!!!!! It's so cute and I love reading all the recipes and thinking how I need to try them lol. I'm wondering though, if you have an easy recipe for chicken salad sandwiches. If you do that'd be awesome! You can email me at book_page_princess@hotmail.com lol
    Love ya
    Emily

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  3. These look delicious! I have a couple of bananas that I need to use and I wanted an alternative to banana bread. I think these would be perfect. I love a good bar recipe. I would love it if you would share your recipe on Sweet Indulgences Sunday on a Well-Seasoned Life.

    http://www.wellseasonedlife.com/2011/05/sweet-indulgences-sunday-5.html

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  4. One of my most favorite desserts!!! I make one that's similar and it's amazing. I love your photo's!!!

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  5. I was just looking at my bananas on the counter thinking 'what should I make?' And then you posted this recipie, perfect! I'll be making these today! Thanks for all your delicious recipies, I LOVE your blog :)

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  6. oh i made this a while ago as part of my "baking my way through" challenge. I'm baking through a whole cook book :) it's so tasty hey?

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  7. I've never had this -- but it looks absolutely delicious. Like, I'd like to make it right now at midnight... Ah. I LOVE cream cheese frosting!

    P.S. I'd love for you to stop by my blog and add your recipe to my link up here. I'm trying to get a lot of sharing going on over and this looks amazing.

    -Carly
    www.createliveblog.com

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