Banana Monkey Bars

Submitted by mary winecoff

"What to do with those last two bananas? Make these quick and easy cookies! This uses a yellow cake mix as a base and adds lots of goodies on top. This recipe is from Camilla Saulsbury's book Cake Mix Cookies."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) box yellow cake mix
• 1⁄3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup nuts, chopped (I used pecans)
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 cup banana, mashed (about 2 medium)
• 1 cup butterscotch chips or 1 cup milk chocolate chips
• 1 1⁄3 cups sweetened flaked coconut

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F
2. Spray the bottom only of a 13 x 9 inch metal baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
3. In a large bowl beat cake mix, oil and egg until well blended and crumbly.
4. Stir in nuts.
5. Set aside 1 cup of the crumb mixture.
6. Firmly press remaining crumb mixture on bottom of prepared pan.
7. In a small bowl, combine condensed milk and mashed banana; pour evenly over crust.
8. Top with butterscotch chips and coconut; press down firmly.
9. Sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture.
10. Bake 25-28 minutes or until lightly browned.
11. Cool completely.
12. Cut into bars.

Reviews

[Beelzs Cook]

These were good but they put me thru the ringer. I had the crust in the pan and had mashed the bananas and opened the sweetened condense milk only to find the color a bit odd. Oh the 2007 date on the bottom might be the reason. Off to buy a new can. Got back finished up and on my way to the oven took one last look at the directions - didn't reserve the 1c. crumbs. It was all on the bottom. Anyway all that aside and my revisions it was still good. I used a chocolate cake mix, no nuts, used peanut butter/ chocolate swirl chips instead and egg beaters. Thanks for the recipe even thru all that it was good.

 

[Kittencalrecipezazz]

wow these are super moist extremely delicious and very rich, I made for my DS and his GF they thoroughly enjoyed the bars, thanks mary!

 

[mwcmax99]

Major Yum! Sinfully delicious. This was EXACTLY the recipe I'd lost & had been looking for. My husband is a Mason, all of the brother Masons devoured these on sight. I made these at 5:30 a.m., before having coffee, & forgot to add coconut & chips--still perfect! Had to bake for about 50 minutes (glass dish, 325 degrees).

 

[Chef Schellies]

We loved these bars. I omitted the nuts in the crust but used a cup of slivered almonds instead of the coconut. Also, I used a glass pan instead of the metal and because of this, I added about 12 minutes onto the baking time. They turned out slightly browned on the bottom and gooey in the middle. Next time, I might add some peanut butter chips. Thanks for the recipe!

 

[V.A.718]

Yummy For The Tummy!!! These turned out great! The coconut, chocolate, and banana were a perfect combo. Super easy to make and tasty to boot! The recipe makes plenty so it's easy to share ;) This one will be made again, thanks so much for posting your recipe :)