Banana Bread Brownies

Submitted by Kosher Kook 2

"Caught this on facebook and submitted here for safekeeping. Prep time and number of servings are estimations."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Yields: 15 15 brownies
• Serves: 15

ingredients

• Brownies

• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
• 2 eggs
• 3 -4 bananas, mashed
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup walnuts, chopped (optional)

• Frosting

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons milk

directions

1. Heat oven to 375°F Grease and flour 15x10-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).

Reviews

[kimberly F.]

This is the best banana bread recipe I've ever used. Serves a ton! Occasionally they come out like brownies occasionally they come out like cake. Either way it's still amazingly delicious. That being said I've had occasion to make substitutions. One of the substitutions was I was out of sour cream and used a cup of Miracle Whip instead. Surprise surprise even better! Also pecans instead of walnuts always tasty. I've also added chocolate chips that was good too. This is a very versatile recipe. I would never change the brown butter frosting... I have made this with canned pumpkin instead of bananas. And a little bit of pumpkin pie spice. Really really good too! Important to know you should always grease and flour the pan. I've use spray and it just doesn't work as well.

 

[9475948]

I saw this posted on FB this morning and I made the recipe this afternoon...it looked THAT good! Yes, it tastes as good as it looks, too. I'm not the biggest fan of banana tastes but this banana bread brownie is truly amazing. It's moist, sweet, flavorful and memorable. Both my kids and my husband had 3 helpings tonight for dessert! I will definitely be making these again for dessert and for parties. Yum!!

 

[emedlock]

Followed directions exactly with the exception of using a regular 9x13 cake pan and baked approximately 35 minutes. This was so good that everyone had it gone by day 3. It tastes even better the next day. Very yummy and a definite keeper.

 

[Kendra.carter11]

This is the best banana recipe I've ever found. Mine didn't turn out brownie like but the fluffest cake like and I added pumpkin spice instead of vanilla in the icing. It's amazing!!!

 

[Leah G.]

This recipe is AWESOME! I made it with a few slight variations, and got some seriously delicious results. First, I made the "brownies" in a 9x13 cake pan, because I wanted them to be a bit thicker (if you do this, you MUST add on some extra bake time - I did about 10 minutes). I also halved the icing recipe (less surface area to cover...also I'm not an icing girl, so a thinner coat is desirable to me). Finally, I chopped some extra walnuts and sprinkled them in the icing. I got rave reviews from everyone who tasted...even my tough to impress mother! Will definitely be making this again! YUM!!!