Banana Blondies

These Banana Blondies with brown sugar frosting are out of this world delicious. They’re perfectly flavored with banana and literally melt in your mouth!

Looking for more Banana Recipes? Try my Chocolate Chip Banana Bread or my Banana Bread Crumb Cake!

I am super into browning butter, just like any good food blogger is, I guess. And isn’t it a strange world we live in where food blogger is an actual job? Freaking crazy. Awesome, yes…but also crazy.

But you know what is actually NOT awesome….is buying a car when you are a food blogger. Filling out the “occupation” slot on the credit application is very confusing. To both me and the credit manager guy.

So like, do I put BLOGGER? That sounds so…I don’t know…not like a real job?

And then ALL THE QUESTIONS you get after you hand over the application…you make MONEY blogging? How does that work? Where does the money come from? How? HOWWW?

So yeah, I ended up putting “Website Publisher”, which I thought at the  time sounded super grown up and profesh. Until the guy came out and asked me what that meant. And I had to say blogger anyway.

Anyway. Next time I will just write “Food Blogger” as my occupation with my URL next to it.

Let’s now talk blondies. With browned butter, because it’s my JOB.

Banana Blondies

Browned Butter Banana Blondies. These are PERFECT blondies with a subtle banana flavor, topped with a brown sugar frosting that is INSANELY good!

These are Banana Blondies. And they are simple simple. Promise.

How to Make These Amazing Banana Bars

Grab you a banana and some brown sugar.

Browned Butter Banana Blondies. These are PERFECT blondies with a subtle banana flavor, topped with a brown sugar frosting that is INSANELY good!

Then melt your butter. Or brown it if you’re nasty.

Mix the butter and brown sugar together.

Browned Butter Banana Blondies. These are PERFECT blondies with a subtle banana flavor, topped with a brown sugar frosting that is INSANELY good!

Mix in the rest of your ingredients…including the banana, that you need to mash, btw.

Browned Butter Banana Blondies. These are PERFECT blondies with a subtle banana flavor, topped with a brown sugar frosting that is INSANELY good!

And then spread it in to a lined pan…

Browned Butter Banana Blondies. These are PERFECT blondies with a subtle banana flavor, topped with a brown sugar frosting that is INSANELY good!

Bake it up for about 25 minutes. And if you want (you want) make some brown sugar frosting. It’s so yum. and when they’re cooled spread it all up on there…

Browned Butter Banana Blondies. These are PERFECT blondies with a subtle banana flavor, topped with a brown sugar frosting that is INSANELY good!

I swear you need to make these. They are THAT good.

Browned Butter Banana Blondies. These are PERFECT blondies with a subtle banana flavor, topped with a brown sugar frosting that is INSANELY good!

If you like banana stuff, check out these other recipes I’ve got:

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Banana Blondies

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  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 50 minutes
  • Yield: 12 blondies 1x
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: American

Description

These Banana Blondies with brown sugar frosting are out of this world delicious. They’re perfectly flavored with banana and literally melt in your mouth!


Ingredients

Scale

Blondies

  • 1/2 cup butter, melted and if desired browned
  • 1 cup light brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup mashed banana (1 medium banana)

Brown Sugar Frosting

  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup light brown sugar
  • 2 Tbsp milk
  • 1 cup powdered sugar

Instructions

Blondies

  1. Preheat oven to 350°. Line an 8×8 baking dish with foil and spray with cooking spray. Set aside
  2. In bowl of stand mixer combine melted (or browned) butter and sugar. Mix until combined. Add in egg and vanilla and continue mixing until incorporated. Stir in salt, flour and banana until batter is smooth and even. Spread in prepared pan.
  3. Bake for 25-30 minutes until center is set.
  4. Transfer pan to wire rack to cool.
  5. Frost the blondies when they are mostly cooled.

Brown Sugar Frosting

  1. In a medium saucepan melt butter. Add brown sugar and milk and stir until mixture comes to just a boil. Remove from heat, allow to cool for 5 minutes.
  2. Stir in powdered sugar with a whisk.
  3. Spread on top of blondies and allow frosting to set and blondies to cool completely before cutting into squares.

Notes

If you choose to brown the butter, melt butter in saucepan and continue cooking, once it’s melted by swirling the butter in the pan until butter reaches a deep golden brown color.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size:
  • Calories: 151
  • Sugar: 20.1 g
  • Sodium: 128.2 mg
  • Fat: 4.8 g
  • Carbohydrates: 26.3 g
  • Protein: 1.8 g
  • Cholesterol: 11.9 mg

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213 comments on “Banana Blondies”

  1. This recipe looks great, but 16 servings in an 8×8 pan? Those will be incredibly tiny and not worth the calories. I’m going to see what the nutrition info is without frosting.

    Also, so so so many ads popping and blocking the recipe!

  2. Brown butter and banana for the win! Such good flavor!
    Did anyone else double the recipe but still bake in an 8×8 pan? Thinking a bit thicker would be good… I dont think it needs the frosting. This has plenty of flavor and is quite sweet. May cut back on the sugar and add nuts the next time.






  3. These are so simple to make and delicious. Made them as directed but added in about 1/2 c of mini semi-sweet chocolate chips, used GF flour, and topped with a peanut butter frosting. They’re easily adaptable. Highly recommend.






  4. Great recipe for using up bananas. The frosting tastes like fudge. Truly decadent! Love it! Family enjoyed it tremendously.






  5. Super simple even with browning the butter! But I’m serving them in 24 hours from now. How should I store them?






    1. Airtight at room temperature or in the refrigerator. I usually keep them at room temp though as long as I know they’re going to get eaten!

  6. I absolutely love these I have literally eaten a whole pan full more than one time. I was wondering if I wanted to half the recipe if you had a recommendation in terms of the egg. Could I mix it and use half or should I just still use 1 egg






  7. Looove this recipe! I have made this twice, the 2nd time making a double batch…I typically have had a smidge of frosting leftover, but, I don’t mind as it is SO yummy it is a tiny guilty treat on it’s own!! Thank you SO much for sharing this!






  8. When your instructions for scaling up this recipe came up all three listed an 8×8 pan for baking. I’m not sure a tripled recipe would fit. Other than that this looks great. I was going to scale it up for a family reunion.






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