These Banana Bread Bars are a great finger food dessert for all of your summer parties. Not to mention, they are another great use for those overly ripe bananas.
Banana Bread Bars
Just look at that creamy frosting! Did I forget to mention that these are Banana Bread Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting? Trust me…You’ll thank me later, for this next piece of advice. Make this recipe, and then take it to someone else! Spare yourself the agony of regretting having eaten the whole darn dessert, standing at the kitchen counter, with only a fork in your hand, and no willpower to walk away.
What I love about these Banana Bread Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting:
- this is a made-from-scratch homemade recipe
- easy to make
- always a big hit
- easy to transport to get-to-gethers
Every delicious morsel is heaven. It’s hard to walk away from this banana bars recipe. I wrapped this up and took it to my parent’s house just to get it out of the kitchen. Make it for a summer BBQ, and share the love. You’ll be happy you did!
Here’s your handy, dandy printable:
Banana Bread Bars
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter unsalted softened
- 1&1/2 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs beaten
- ¾ cup buttermilk if you don’t have buttermilk – add a little lemon juice to your milk and let sit for 5 minutes – Voila’ Buttermilk!
- 2 bananas overly ripe
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups flour all-purpose
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp soda
Cream Cheese Topping
- 2 8 oz. cream cheese
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 Tbsp orange juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and grease a 13 x 9 pan
- In a large mixing bowl – Cream the butter and sugar together
- Add the eggs milk, bananas, sour cream, & vanilla
- Add flour, salt and soda
- Pour into your prepared pan
- Bake for 30 minutes. Take out and allow to cool down
- While that’s cooling mix the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and orange juice
- Spread onto the banana bread
- Cut into bars
- Enjoy!
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