Banana Bars
Ingredients
¼ cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup masked bananas (about 3 medium bananas)
½ tsp Lemon Extract
½ cup chopped nuts (suggest walnuts)
2 cups siftted flour
2 tsp baking powder (level)
½ tsp salt
½ tsp vanilla
Confectioner’s Sugar Icing recipe
Additional ½ cup nuts
Instructions
Cream butter, sugar and eggs until light and fluffy. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with massed bananas. Add flavoring (lemon extract and vanilla) and nuts and mix well. Spread batter in 13x9x2 inch greased pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Frost with Confectioner’s Sugar Icing while still warm. Sprinkle with second ½ cup nuts. Cut into bars when cooled.
For drop cookies, drop from teaspoon on greased cookies sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 – 15 minutes. Frost with icing while still warm. Sprinkle with nuts.
Notes
Confectioner Sugar Frosting
1 Tbs & 1 tsp butter
¼ cup hot milk
About 3 – 3 ¼ cups sifted confectioner sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Food coloring
Add butter to the milk. Add sugar gradually to make frosting right for spreading. Add vanilla extract and mix well. Add food coloring as desired.
Recipe Yield
Makes about 3 dozen bar cookies, 5 dozen cookies 1x
Cookie Category: Bars, Drop
Difficulty: ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Find it online: http://www.cookiesbybess.com/banana-bars/