Banana bread bars

Ingredients

• BANANA BREAD BARS

  
  
  From recipes in the family 
• 1 1/2 c

  sugar
• 1 c

  sour cream
• 2

  eggs
• 1/2 c

  butter, softened
• 1 3/4 c

  mashed ripe bananas (3-4 bananas)
• 2 tsp

  vanilla extract
• 2 c

  all purpose flour
• 1 tsp

  baking soda
• 3/4 tsp

  salt
• 1/2 c

  chopped walnuts (optional)

• BROWN BUTTER FROSTING

• 1/2 c

  butter
• 4 c

  powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp

  vanilla extract
• 3 Tbsp

  milk

  
  

  DIRECTIONS:

  1. Heat oven to 375F. 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. Add flour, baking soda, salt, and blend for 1 minute. Stir in walnuts.
  2. Spread batter evenly into pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.
  3. Meanwhile, for frosting, heat butter in a large saucepan over medium heat until boiling. Let the butter turn a delicate brown and remove from heat immediately.
  4. Add powdered sugar, vanilla extract and milk. Whisk together until smooth (it should be thicker than a glaze but thinner than frosting). Using a spatula, spread the brown butter frosting over the warm bars (the frosting will be easier to spread while the bars are still warm).

Cookie Sheet Brownies (or two 9x13 pans)

Mix together:

4 cups sugar
2/3 to 1 cup cocoa
1 cup butter, melted

Add: 8 eggs and beat well.

Add: 3 1/2 cups flour
1/8 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla

Pour into a large greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.
(I do not use every drop of batter unless you have a rather large cookie sheet) I let the kids lick the spoons and the bowl..... I recently found that two 9x13 pans work better then a cookie sheet!

You can add chocolate chips or other baking chips if you would like.