Banana Bread Brownies

The world needs to know. The sweet taste of banana bread brownies topped with a brown butter frosting.
The world needs to know. The sweet taste of banana bread brownies topped with a brown butter frosting.

6:00 p.m.  Walk in the door.  Turn the oven to 375°F.  Grease a 13 x 9 inch pan.
Open the fridge pull 2 eggs out. Take one large bowl and beat eggs together with sugar, sour cream and butter until creamy.

6:05 p.m. Take banana off the counter, just one of the ones you usually grab for smoothies or snacks, and set it, still peeled and sliced, in your favorite greek yogurt and place in the fridge.

6:10 p.m. Take the remaining bananas ( I’m just kidding, you’ll need only 3) and stick them in high-speed blender with a bowl or food processor and pureé it to a cream, add egg-butter mixture, flour, baking soda, salt, vanilla extract and blend for minute more. Open your jar with chopped walnuts (“quite convenient”) and stir in about 1/2 cup. Spread batter evenly into pan. Slide the pan into the oven, set the timer for 25 minutes, clean the blender, twiddle your thumbs, take out your banana greek yogurt and go sit on the sofa and look at Pinterest.

The world needs to know. The sweet taste of banana bread brownies topped with a brown butter frosting.

6:25 p.m. Heat butter in a large saucepan over medium heat, watch carefully when it reaches a medium brown color turn off heat, whisk in powdered sugar at a time, adding milk as it thickens, then add in vanilla.

6:35 p.m. when the oven starts to beeping, use mitted hands to pull pan and its now-golden brown banana bread out of the oven. Cool slighty until warm but not hot and pour frosting over the banana bread, smooth with a spatula, butter knife, or frosting spatula.
“What are you guys making? It smells like freshly baked pie or bread ? those words were the first reaction of your neighbor, because crispy baked banana bread brownies smell waft its way through.

6:40 p.m. Stop everything you are doing to pull out your Canon camera and then your iPhone and then your computer because, this is completely killer! The world needs to know.

7:00 p.m. Publish blog post. Start of cooking to published post = one hour = Not bad… Not bad at all!

Banana Bread Brownies

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Yield: 2 dozen

Serving Size: large bars

The world needs to know. The sweet taste of banana bread brownies topped with a brown butter frosting.

Ingredients

  • Brownies:
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 bananas, mashed
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup walnuts,chopped
  • Frosting:
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 3 tablespoons milk

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 375°F. Grease a 13 x 9 inch pan.
  2. For the brownie,
  3. In a large bowl, beat together sugar, sour cream, butter, and eggs until creamy.
  4. Blend in bananas and vanilla extract.
  5. Add flour, baking soda, salt, and blend for 1 minute. Stir in walnuts.
  6. Spread batter evenly into pan. Bake 25 minutes or until golden brown.
  7. Cool slighty (warm but not hot) and frost with frosting.
  8. For frosting,
  9. Heat butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.
  10. Watch carefully when it reaches a medium brown color turn off heat, whisk in powdered sugar at a time, adding milk as it thickens, then add in vanilla.
  11. Pour over the warm banana bread brownies immediately, and smooth with a spatula, butter knife, or frosting spatula.
  12. Cool completely before cutting.

Notes

https://sugarapron.com/2015/04/09/banana-bread-brownies/

The world needs to know. The sweet taste of banana bread brownies topped with a brown butter frosting.

 

The sweet taste of banana bread brownies topped with a brown butter frosting.

About Sarah Kozowski

Hi! Welcome to my blog! I’m Sarah– I do part-time job at a kindergarten and in my free time i love to cook, take photos and go jogging. I'm recipe developer, photographer, writer, and taste tester behind this blog. I develop my recipes and photos through good old fashioned trial and error, some days I have more success than others, as you can judge by the photos here. Grab a cup of coffee (or beverage of your choice) and stay with me awhile, poke through recipes, pick your favourite and reach out to me if you have any questions!

27 thoughts on “Banana Bread Brownies

  1. I love the way you write the “Print Version” of the recipe. It is so concise and clear. I wish more bloggers would use your method. I can’t wait to try this recipe. The only thing I think you missed is the step where the cook inserts one heaping teaspoon of the icing into her gaping maw! 😀

  2. hello! I’ve made your banana bread brownies and they are delicious! My question to you is, is it better to store these in the refrigerator? Thanks!

    1. Hi Deneine,the brownie actually get better as they sit, moister and denser. So feel free to make these ahead and serve them the next day. I think these taste better cold, but serve at any temperature you desire!

  3. You’ve made my day .. lol… i was just breezing through pinterest and stumbled across your page.. i will definitely try this out and let you know how it all went down… thanks !!

  4. Awesome recipe. Use sheetcake pan otherwise comes out more cake like than brownies. Icing is delicious but almost too sweet for my taste.
    Tried it just to use up some bananas but now have a new favorite.

  5. Let me first say that this was light, fluffy, moist and delicious. I didn’t think it was like brownies but more like cake. Again, still very good! I nearly polished off the 9×13 pan all by myself. I also opted for cream cheese icing on the cake instead of the brown butter. The combo was perfection. This recipe is a keeper!

  6. Is there any way you could tell me the actual amount (cups) of banana you use? Or rough size of bananas? They vary so much.

  7. In your description at 6:05 you say to put your banana in the Greek yogurt but in your ingredient list it calls for sour cream ?
    Can you use either?

  8. I left out 1/2 c. sugar . I used yogurt instead of sour cream and I cut the frosting recipe by half. No one complained.. Brown butter is wonderful with bananas. Everyone loved this recipe! Thank -you for a real keeper!

  9. This is absolutely delicious and an instant favorite! It was really easy to make, also. I used chopped pecans and it went well with the burnt butter icing. – Fabulous! Thank you 😊

  10. This is delicious but definitely not brownies or blondies. To be clear, this is cake. Very yummy but misnamed.

  11. Great recipe, easy to make.
    More like a cake, lots of flavor, very moist.
    Added chocolate chips and skipped the frosting.
    I will make again!

  12. So incredibly yummy! Followed the recipe exactly – I baked in two smaller disposable containers so I could keep one and give one. Thanks for sharing 🙂

  13. Do you think I could use gluten free flour? I’ve got Celiac Disease, but this recipe sounds delicious.

  14. Should I adjust temp or bake time for a convention oven . This definitely didn’t cook in 25 minutes and it still seemed underbaked but I was afraid it would brown to
    Much so I took it out . I also am not sure if it was because I put to much banana?
    They taste great though … and I added cinnamon, chopped pecans and cranberries

  15. Miss my grandmothers banana recipe , ( bbq grill master, amateur stove top cook and baker) went looking found this. looks and sounds great cant wait for my next day off from work to try it… Thanks for sharing

  16. My family fell in love with this and my wife,son said it tasted like banana bread. But said it was delicious to make it again so it’s a keeper in my family Thanks for sharing

  17. I absolutely love banana bread I had a fire lost everything cookbooks all of it and when I see recipes like this it just reminds me of what I lost I would love to start picking again just can’t afford the cookbooks.

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