We had some bananas that were very VERY ripe (AKA on the verge of becoming compost). My mom told me to use them or else they'd be thrown away in the next 24 hours. Well, duh, I never pass up a reason to bake! While shopping with my aunt Tammy this week, I bought 3 new cookbooks. This recipe comes from Betty Crocker: Baking for Today. The price on the inside bookcover is $24.95, but the price at Ross was only $4.99. How could I pass that up!?! (Speaking of Ross, I recently saw Baking: From My Home To Yours by Dorie Greenspan at Ross for like $8 last week! Made me mad that I bought it from Amazon for $11). These Banana Bars are more like cake than what I think of when I here "bar" mentioned as a snack (My mind goes to "cookie/brownie," what about you??) They'd also be perfect as muffins! However I think they're too soft to be made into banana bread. I made them special by using some Vietnamese Cinnamon (from TJ Maxx, $3.99!). This cinnamon smells sooooooo good. I highly recommend buying it if you can find it! Anyway, here's the recipe along with a few photos.
Banana Bars (Makes 2 dozen bars)
1 cup sugar
1 cup mashed very ripe bananas (2 medium or 3 small)
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
Streusel Topping (my own addition)
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1. Heat oven to 350F. Grease bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan with shortening or cooking spray. In large bowl, mix sugar, bananas, oil, and eggs with spoon. Sift in flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Spread in pan. (For streusel topping, in a small bowl combine ingredients with your fingers until crumbly. Sprinkle on top of batter halfway through baking time.)
2. Bake 25-30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely. (We ate them warm!)
16 comments:
I have that cookbook, too! I'll have to try that recipe!
You can find the sideswipe here:
http://www.sideswipeblade.com/
I won't even tell you how much I paid Amazon for Dorie's book cos then I'll cry. And did I mention shipping it all the way around the world?
Have never heard Vietnamese cinnamon - how is it different?
Yeah, I can't believe how much the price of that book has fallen. It's worth every cent... half cent even.
The bars look great... and I second what Dee said... what exactly is Vietnamese Cinnamon?
May I make a request for your next cupcake?
Pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. :)
UR sad?! i got my Baking from my home to yours from barnes and nobles for $40! lol. And Vietnamese Cinnamon? awesome~ :)
hmmm these are the ideal breakfast. And they re butter free, I ll try them . Nice recipe as always.
I'm defrosting my overripe bananas as soon as I finish this post. I need to buy eggs, so I'll make them this afternoon. I love to buy cookbooks and buy "used" from Amazon all the time. I just made orangies with a great orange cream cheese frosting which would go great on pumpkin cupcakes :)
Love the sideswipe Cristine mentioned. Don't know how I lived without it. The topping on these bars totally rocks! Next time I buy bananas and the kids forget to eat them, I'm all over these.
Looks yummy. Must give the cookbook a look, too. I'm still waiting for my "Taste of Home" pound cake mix to arrive. Dying to try the cuppies from your last post :)
Yummy, yummy! I have a brown banana in my fridge that would go perfectly in this, it does sound like a yummy breakfast :). I've yet to buy that book! I'm a bad baker!
Hi, I always read you blog but never leave any comment..
sorry bout that.
I loove the blog, since I intend to be in the cooking bussiness
You always make me hungry with the cupcakes pictures... haha
i even bought a form for cupcake, wich was really hard to find, saying now that i'm brazilian and cupcakes are not a very commom thing here.
Now i can start trying the recipes.. haha
anyway, congrats for the bloog
well done
and if you want to know some Brazilian recipes from a local .. i'm here
We did a post about cupcakes in everything, and it reminded this Blog!
Kisses,
They look like bars, but are more cake-like? Sounds fabulous! They look delicious that's for sure and I love having a different option for bananas:)
Tks for the visit!
We love cupcakes and this Blog!!!!
Kisses, Rostinhos Bonitoss
Yum Yum Yum! I'm hungry and these sound great!
Check out The Spice House for some great baking spices. They have about 4-5 different types of cinnamon, cake spice, pumpkin pie spice, apple pie spice, etc. I've bought spices from TJ Maxx, Ross, marshalls, etc but The Spice house stuff is amazing.
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