Banana Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
When you have several bananas that are on the verge of becoming a little too ripe, try these moist, frosted dessert bars! A classic recipe from The Best of Byerly’s cookbook.
Makes 50 (1 ½ x 2-inch) bars
Preparation time: 60 minutes
Ingredients
½ cup butter, softened
1 ¼ cups sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup mashed bananas (2 large)
1 (8-ounce) container dairy sour cream
2 cups flour
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup chopped pecans
Cream cheese frosting (see recipe below)
Directions
- Grease and lightly flour a 10×15-inch jelly roll pan.
- Heat oven to 375 F.
- Cream butter and sugar; blend in eggs, vanilla, bananas and sour cream.
- Combine dry ingredients; stir with pecans into creamed mixture just until blended. Spread in prepared pan.
- Bake until bars test done with a wooden pick, about 25 minutes.
- Cool; spread with Cream Cheese Frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 ½ cups powdered sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
Beat together all ingredients until smooth.