Ready for another vintage recipe? This new segment feature recipes our mothers and grandmothers used to make. This month’s recipe? Banana Chocolate Chip Bars!
I love to cook, and I really love to bake. If I had my way, I’d bake fresh cinnamon rolls with cream cheese buttercream frosting every single weekend! Alas, my family is working on improving our health, and that means yummy frosting is a once-in-a-while indulgence instead of every Saturday. Bummer.
One of my favorite cake-like bars does not feature fluffy frosting, and it even has some fruit in it. Practically a healthy dessert, right? Okay, I wouldn’t go that far! My mom, aunts, and both grandmothers were always making banana bread, and this has a slight twist–mini-chocolate chips! These bars are delicious and very easy to make.
Banana Chocolate Chip Bars
Time: 10 minutes prep
Bake: 30 minutes
Makes: 40 small bars (or 20 normal-sized bars)
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups mashed ripe bananas (3-5 bananas, depending on size)
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
6 TBS melted butter or 1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup milk
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup mini chocolate chips, divided
Instructions:
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray nonstick spray in 13×9 baking pan.
- Whisk mashed bananas, sugar, butter (or oil), milk, eggs, vanilla, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in large bowl until mixed thoroughly. Whisk in flour just until blended. Gently stir in 1/2 cup of the mini chocolate chips.
- Spread batter in prepared pan. Sprinkle remaining mini chocolate chips over the top.
- Bake 15-20 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool completely before serving.
I hope you enjoy this Banana Chocolate Chip Bar recipe!