Banana Chocolate Chip Bars
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4.5
Banana Chocolate Chip Bars
Description
This recipe blends ripe bananas with softened butter, brown sugar, eggs, and milk to create a smooth batter. Incorporating vanilla extract and cinnamon builds fragrant flavor layers, while baking soda provides leavening. Salt balances the sweetness, and flour binds the ingredients into a tender structure. Chocolate chips mixed in near the end add bursts of melted chocolate in each bite.
Baked in a greased 9x9 pan and cooked for about 25 minutes, the bars develop a soft interior with a slightly firm crust. Cooling before cutting ensures clean slices and helps the texture set properly. Due to the banana's moisture, the bars remain tender and moist.
These bars make a convenient, sweet offering for a casual snack, packed lunch, or mild dessert. The combination of banana and chocolate is classic and comforting without being cloying.
Ingredients
- 5 banana very ripe
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup butter softened
- ¼ cup milk
- 2 egg
- 1 ¾ cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a square 9x9 baking pan with shortening, butter, or nonstick baking spray.
- Mash peeled ripe bananas in a large bowl.
- Add in butter, eggs, and brown sugar and cream together.
- Stir in milk.
- Add in vanilla, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and mix well.
- Fold in flour and mix until there are no lumps - but to not overwork.
- Add chocolate chips in right at the end, mixing through thoroughly.
- Pour batter into prepared baking dish, and bake for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean (you might get melted chocolate on the toothpick, disregard that.)
- Let cool completely before cutting.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 9Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 324 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1g | |
| Calories | 324kcal | 16% |
| Carbohydrates | 51g | 17% |
| Protein | 5g | 10% |
| Fat | 11g | 17% |
| Saturated Fat | 7g | 35% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 0.5g | 3% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 2g | 10% |
| Trans Fat | 0.2g | 10% |
| Cholesterol | 54mg | 18% |
| Sodium | 327mg | 14% |
| Potassium | 77mg | 2% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 31g | 62% |
| Vitamin A | 267IU | 5% |
| Vitamin C | 0.1mg | 0% |
| Calcium | 60mg | 6% |
| Iron | 2mg | 11% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Overall Rating
4.5
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