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.
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
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
- Heat oven to 375°F. Grease a 13 x 9 inch pan.
- For the brownie,
- 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.
- Spread batter evenly into pan. Bake 25 minutes or until golden brown.
- Cool slighty (warm but not hot) and frost with frosting.
- For frosting,
- 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.
- Pour over the warm banana bread brownies immediately, and smooth with a spatula, butter knife, or frosting spatula.
- Cool completely before cutting.
Notes
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! 😀
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!
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!
What a great idea! Love that you combined two amazing desserts together!
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 !!
would like too get your Recipe, made these Banana brownie for the clinice where i volunteer they all said those were the best they had for a long time said thanks
Very good
This is one of the best banana recipes to date for me and my family. We have made it 2 days in a row. Yuumy! Thank you for sharing.
Sarah, these brownies were delicious. I did however, swap the flour with wheat flour, but it still was scrumptious!! My family tried to eat the whole pan last night. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤️
I made these, but used a cream cheese frosting and a sprinkling of chopped pecans. Took them to work to share….people went crazy for these wonderful little bites of heaven. The keep for days and are even better the second or third day! I sent your recipe to two people who asked for it. This is a keeper for my recipe file. Thanks so much for sharing, Sarah!
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.
I took your suggestion used a jelly roll pan. I think they’re more brownie like using a jelly roll pan. I just adjusted the oven temp to 350° and adjusted the baking time to around 20 minutes. They baked beautifuly.
I have made this recipe so many times over the past couple of years, I have also made them into a cupcake as well to disperse between coworkers more easily. It is a big hit and I will also be making this recipe at my class reunion coming up and I hope to get the same response as always. I have always loved banana bread growing up and with your recipe they have become so much moister. I’m so thankful to have come across your recipe, It is now a family favorite and I will pass this one along to my daughter, Thank you very much.
One of the best things I have ever baked! Absolutely delicious!! My husband and I ate the whole pan in less than a day and a half! Thanks for posting!
I made these banana bread brownies,I’m no baker,I really was just needing to use up some overripe bananas when I stumbled across this recipe…..let me just say,these are the moistest,sweetest,most amazing things I have ever had,they are going to be a must have for future family events,as I took some to my mothers for Easter and everyone LOVED them!!! I highly recommend these!
This is Great. Everytime I’ve made it, everyone loves it and will say, please make this again!!!
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!
Just made the banana bread brownies and they were so moist and delicious! Thank you for sharing!
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.
This was amazing!!!
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?
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!
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 ????
This is delicious but definitely not brownies or blondies. To be clear, this is cake. Very yummy but misnamed.
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!
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 🙂
Can the eggs be substituted with applesauce? My daughter has an egg allergy but these look delicious!
Do you think I could use gluten free flour? I’ve got Celiac Disease, but this recipe sounds delicious.
I have used the 1-1 cup gf flour and it turned out delicious.
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
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
Love this! So moist and delicious. I doubled the recipe and made roasting dish size to share with family members. Certainly didn’t last long at all lol
This is the best brownie recipe. I found the recipe last week and have made my second pan full yesterday. Seems I can’t keep it in the house.
This is delicious!! Love brown butter icing!
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
I love this! I left out half a cup of the sugar and put cinnamon and honey in it. Also, halved the icing and it so good.
Banana bread brownies Absolutely wonderful so flavorful ! Will Absolutely make again. Thank you
Made this easy to follow, but added raisins instead of nuts and used cream cheese frosting. Big hit
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.
These brownies are delicious and easy to make. Our grandson nearly devoured them by himself.
Amazing! It’s banana bread and delicious frosted cake all in one. I’ve made this many times and it’s SOOO good. Not too sweet but sweet enough. Don’t change a thing. It’s delicious!