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Banana Blondies
- Total Time
- 35 minutes, plus cooling time
- Rating
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Ingredients
- 6tablespoons butter
- ⅔cup brown sugar
- 1egg
- 1cup banana puree
- ½cup whole wheat flour
- ½cup all-purpose flour
- ½teaspoon baking soda
- ½teaspoon vanilla
- 1cup chocolate chips
- ½cup walnuts
Preparation
- Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a nine-inch-square baking pan.
- Step 2
Cream butter, add sugar and beat in egg. Stir in banana puree. Stir in whole wheat and white flour and baking soda. Add vanilla.
- Step 3
Add chocolate chips and walnuts and bake for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool before cutting into squares.
Private Notes
Cooking Notes
Made this with three ripe bananas, coconut sugar, and dark chocolate chips. Deliciously fudge and not too sweet - just like I like my brownies.
If you have 3 overripe bananas, then this recipe is perhaps for you. If you're looking for a banana blondie, this is not for you. Like others have stated, this is more of a banana bread recipe than anything else. Although I was surprised that the recipe called for no salt, which is essential. Baked goods need salt. Some notes. I baked in an 8x8 pan. 350 F seemed too high for 8x8 pan + longer bake time. I only used AP flour. Result was gooey banana bread with chocolate chips.
I made this recipe to the letter. It worked very well and the flavors were good. I do find that many "bakes" tend to be too sweet and next time I will cut the brown sugar to 1/2 cup to see if its more to my tastebuds. The banana has plenty of sweetness, especially if they are very ripe and browning a bit. Cheers
This recipe was just what I was looking for to deal with the 3 bananas my family was studiously ignoring. This turned them into something warm and wonderful and a big hit. While I get the value of whole wheat flour, I just used white, and also boosted the chocolate chip amount, so maybe that’s what took me out of breadland to cookie-opolis. Also, baked in a 9x9 for 30 min. I will do this again, for sure.
3 bananas make a cup perfectly
I used 3 old, mostly brown bananas, about 1.5 cups. blondies came out very moist, but still more like banana bread than blondies. I think that you would need to use much more sugar and use oil instead of butter if you want a blondie. I also used a 7x11 metal pan, 330 degrees for 30 minutes.
I thought this recipe was very good. My blondies were fairly gooey, especially toward the middle, not particularly cake-like or bread-like. I liked the flavor of these better than traditional banana bread, probably because the fat in this recipe is butter, not oil. Yum!
Agree with prior comment -- it is not that this is bad, but it is not a blondie...it is banana chic chip square. I prob will not make again.
These aren't necessarily bad, but expect banana bread, not blondies. They rose significantly in the oven, and they came out soft and cake-like, rather than chewy like blondies or brownies.
I used 3 very old bananas and omitted the chocolate. Really moist and yummy!
I added cocoa powder and used all purpose flour
Replaced banana puree with one ripe banana - only had all-purpose, so that's what I used.
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