What do you do when you have over-ripe bananas to be used? Bake, of course! But what to bake? Normally I would make these sweet banana cookies, but we are all out of oats! So I browsed the internet hard to find me something on the healthier side that featured bananas. And…drum roll, please…I came up with whole-wheat chocolate chip banana bars (found it from a great blogger’s site)! Banana bars? Sound weird? They’re not. It’s basically brownie-shaped banana bread with chocolate chips. Yeah, they’re good. Hungry brought them to work and he got major points from his coworkers.
The texture of the banana bars are cake-like rather than brownie-like, light and fluffy. Some hybrid of banana bread and cake. It’s yum. What makes this recipe healthier? Whole-wheat flour, no butter, and not too much sugar. Yeah, there are chocolate chips in it, but I mean, you got to live a little. Some baking recipes are complicated. This one is not. It’s basically mix together, put into sheet pan, and bake. And you know I love easy recipes. Alright, let’s make these delicious banana bars.
- 3-5 over-ripe bananas
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 1/4 cup milk (I use 1%)
- 2 eggs
- 1 3/4 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease up a baking sheet, mine was roughly 15 x 11".
- Mash up your bananas and put into large mixing bowl.
- Add brown sugar, milk, coconut oil, vanilla extract and eggs. Mix well.
- Add baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Stir gently.
- Add in the flour a little at a time until combined.
- Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Pour evenly into pan and bake for 18-24 minutes until golden brown.
- Let cool and then cut into squares.
