Banana Blondies

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Yield: 16 blondies
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

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

Preheat oven to 350°. Line an 8×8 baking dish with foil and spray with cooking spray. Set aside
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.
Bake for 25-30 minutes until center is set.
Transfer pan to wire rack to cool.
Frost the blondies when they’re largely cooled.

Brown Sugar Frosting

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.
Stir in powdered sugar with a whisk.
Spread on top of blondies and permit frosting to set and blondies to cool totally 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.

Adapted from Smitten Kitchen.