Banana Monkey Bars

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: 35 mins
• Serves: 24

Ingredients

• 1 (18 1/4ounce) 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.